Full Span...

You may have to scroll this one a bit. She's on an old 2x4, warming up in the sun,
preparing for the maiden flight. There's nothing quite like heat to get a butterfly's
engines revved up.

A 2x4 is really 3.5 inches wide, and her wingspan is just about the same. A big gal. Hmmm...why do we think it's a gal and not a guy?!

Home


Home
The condo, nursery, bassinet, and pupa pad...
Tools...
Time for chow...
Beware store-bought food!
The preferred foods...
Convergence...
Newborn...
Reasoning with a youngster...
Pumpkerpillars...
Twins...
A tiny wasp larva intervenes...
Don't toss out that drowned cat!
Silk...
Frass...
Something there is in a fennel plant that loves a caterpillar egg...
Cats can be a handful... Applying low voltage...
Time to roam...
Contortion...
It's pupating where??
What is that weird thing?!
Dunno--that pupa looks sort of dead...
No harness? Stop worrying...
Emergence...
The butterfly...
Girl or Boy?
The fabulous flying machine...
Full Span...
The antennae...
The proboscis...
Close-up...
Home Feeding...
Lifespan Timeline...