Black Eastern Swallowtail cats and butterflies

Here we have caterpillars of the Black Eastern Swallowtail butterfly eating my bronze fennel plant. The females lay the eggs on this plant then the little critters start munching away, until there is hardly anything left of the plant at all.

The picture below is a baby caterpillar.


These next two pictures are of adults.

These next two pictures are of one of the butterflies freshly emerged.
Soon after I took these pictures he/she flew away.

FlowerLady

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Buckminster Fuller

Sulphur cats and butterflies

Sulphur butterflies are really fast, flitting around here and there and everywhere, hardly stopping at all. They are very hard to get pictures of but I've gotten a few. Recently I even got one in it's chrysalis and right after it emerged.

This is a picture of the caterpillar. It is munching away on my cassia shrub.

Below are two pictures of the butterfly getting ready to emerge.
You can see the chrysalis starting to split at the top.

Here it is fresh out. I missed seeing it emerge, dang it.

This is a close-up of the critter.

The cassia shrub is a host plant. The females lay their eggs here.

The flowers bloom in the fall.

Hope you enjoyed this little group of pictures.

FlowerLady


"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly.

"One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen

Somewhere over the rainbow.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Eva Cassidy

Our Octoberfest Lunch

Hi again everyone. Since this is October, I wanted to fix DH and I a German style Octoberfest lunch. I bought German style Bratwurst sausages, put them in the crockpot with beer, onion and seasonings. Made hot German potato salad. Heated up a can of sauerkraut with caraway seeds sprinkled in, and made a loaf of pumperknickel rye bread in my bread machine. Boy oh boy, was it ever smelling yummy in here. The lunch was served with ice cold Spatan beer from Germany.

Now I am pleasantly stuffed, still sipping my beer and below is a picture of our Octoberfest lunch. Not very colorful, that's for sure, but it sure was good tasting.

FlowerLady