A Lep Emerges!

Eleven days after a Cloudless Sulphur caterpillar was first noticed preparing to pupate on a Partridge Pea pod in Catch the Wind, it has emerged as an adult male butterfly.

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Ten days after it had become a chrysalis, the insect emerged as an adult male butterfly.
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The view from the other side. Females are more heavily marked on the wings than are the males.

A Monarch caterpillar was pointed out to me on Butterfly Weed in Catch the Wind.

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This Monarch caterpillar munches on Butterfly Weed (a milkweed) next to the Ornithopter in Catch the Wind.

I’ll have to keep an eye on that one too!

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