Tag Archive | Butterflies
Bite, Bite, Bite, Chew
So goes the monarch caterpillars on our backyard milkweed plants. The small bushes begin to look like Charlie Brown Christmas trees as the caterpillars crawl up and down the milkweeds devouring each and just about every leaf. It is smart that the monarchs only lay a single egg on a milkweed plant and not all the […]
We Have Poisonous Caterpillars!
It has been about a week since the monarch butterfly spent breakfast with me and deposited several eggs on milkweed plants in our backyard. Anne and I decide to search the plants to see if the eggs hatched and to find the caterpillars. It takes a few minutes, but we find a small caterpillar hanging […]
Breakfast with my Gossamer Winged Guest
As the sun rises over Lake Tsala Apopka its first light shines into my bedroom. A mockingbird calls from a distant rooftop and a cardinal joins in, then a mourning dove and a Carolina wren. I awaken, grab a cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal and sit in the Florida room eating my breakfast as […]
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