It was only approximately 3/4 of an inch long. Looking at images of caterpillars found in Texas I couldn’t identify it. Of course since the only two caterpillars I seem to be able to identify are the monarch and the tomato hornworm I’m in no danger of ever being labeled a lepidopterist.
Our neighborhood recently held its annual yard sale. Easy to tell what the weather was like.
The ant gastroenterologist is going to be overwhelmed tonight and tomorrow the ant undertaker will have their turn.
In the past my wife has bought plant markers, and also made her own from clear plasitic containers. This year we are doing something different by turning old cutting plastic cutting boards into plant markers.
After being cut into the shape of the plant markers they are still stiff enough to serve as markers.
We didn’t worry whether they were all the same size. Close in size was plenty good enough.
Using a permeant marker to write on them.
Three rows of beets.
She likes green beans (:>).
As good as, if not better than store bought and who cares what they look like.
We have two butterfly weed plants in our backyard and this seems to be the time of the year the monarchs are busy producing new monarchs. It seems everywhere we look we can see monarch caterpillars.
The monarch’s and the butterfly weed seem to have a symbiotic relationship.
This is to give an idea of the coloration and number of antenna of the monarch caterpillar. (Better photos are just below)
When it is time to eat, nothing stops these caterpillars.
Everything edible on the butterfly weed is devoured,
Up and down the stems they go.
The arrow points to a caterpillar. Don’t ever think it is easy to photograph these caterpillars. I was using my Sony RX100 III and between the angles and the glare on the screen from the sun, my ratio of good shots to bad was roughly 1 in 4. Disclaimer: no monarch caterpillars were harmed in the making of this blog post.
