Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Best of the Butterflies 2
Here are a few more great pictures I got yesterday and today. Like I mentioned in 'Best of the Butterflies', the chrysalis turns dark right before the butterfly emerges, like this one I found this morning:
This will show you what you're looking at. They pull their legs up and push open that hatch (dotted line), crawling up out of the top:
And here he is a half-hour later (they always wait until I go inside to come out...thanks a lot, guys!):
You can see there isn't much to hold on to, so when a breeze blew through, he fell down into the irises and had to be rescued with a pine branch... he was just like that as a caterpillar, too. Some are more trouble than others:
Finally, yesterday's baby, resting on an African Iris seed pod. I spotted him immediately after he emerged, with his wings still wadded up like a walnut, tearing up the white tent pole at top speed to find a place to sit. Unfortunately, that early, pictures are hard to take because of low lighting. This was once the sun had risen.
This will show you what you're looking at. They pull their legs up and push open that hatch (dotted line), crawling up out of the top:
And here he is a half-hour later (they always wait until I go inside to come out...thanks a lot, guys!):
You can see there isn't much to hold on to, so when a breeze blew through, he fell down into the irises and had to be rescued with a pine branch... he was just like that as a caterpillar, too. Some are more trouble than others:
Finally, yesterday's baby, resting on an African Iris seed pod. I spotted him immediately after he emerged, with his wings still wadded up like a walnut, tearing up the white tent pole at top speed to find a place to sit. Unfortunately, that early, pictures are hard to take because of low lighting. This was once the sun had risen.
Comments:
Post a Comment
