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Oct 12, 2016 1:46 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
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Well, I checked on my Sulphur cats today after I had high tea (yummy). And I can't believe no one called me out on this. And that I missed it myself, although I'm blaming it on the poor lighting combined with the Old Fashioned I had with dinner. Whistling The caterpillar I saw in the morning that was molting was definitely a Cloudless Sulphur. Green, yellow stripe. The pair I saw later in the day are Orange-Barred Sulphurs. I took a better shot of them a few minutes ago.

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I didn't see the Cloudless Sulphur today, but they can blend well, so I'm not too worried. I tried to check as much of the plant as I could. I keep expecting for the valets to ask me what I'm looking at, but maybe they're used to eccentric rich people in Naples. Rolling on the floor laughing The plant did get egg-bombed, though. See all those little football-shaped things on the edges of the leaves? Sulphur eggs! Hurray!

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