The dentist numbed the left side of my face. Am I the only one that thinks its super fun to poke yourself when you're numb?
When we were talking about my glittery Viceroy caterpillar, it reminded me that Long-Tailed Skipper cats are pretty cool, too. They have orange feet! And really, how cute is that? It's like they're wearing little orange sneakers.
I released more Phaon Crescents today. One of them got some meconium on his back wings and I was kind of freaking out. Could I daub at him with the cheesecloth? As I was starting to do just that, he flew over to another part of the cheesecloth and I guess the flapping motion on the wings removed the meconium. It made me wonder if they can do that with raindrops?
More Phaon Crescents.
It's cool enough this Cloudless Sulphur had to stop and refuel. And I got pictures! I feel like it has been so long since I took a Sulphur picture.
While picking Desmodium, I found another Long-Tailed Skipper egg.
I saw a Blue butterfly on this Hairy Indigo. Knowing it's a host plant for the Ceraunus Blue, I took a close look, but this was a Cassius Blue.
This Tropical Checkered Skipper is a little roughed up.
Skipper hanging out on the pentas.
And this is what that Polydamas chrysalis looks like after hardening. They can be green or brown, like most Swallowtails, but they're usually brown. So this one is kind of odd.
Speaking of chrysalises, this Black ST decided not to overwinter!
These two Long-Tailed Skipper cats silked their leaves right to the side to make a nest.
All right, after I went to the dentist I came home and this Long-Tailed Skipper was basking. Sooo pretty! Oh, it was also laying eggs on my butterfly pea.
While I was gone, my Black ST emerged! This one is male.
And keeping with the theme of butterflies on my hand, here's a Phaon Crescent. Yup, I had more emerge. You can see just how small they are.
I went rummaging through the neighbor's yard and found some more Frogfruit I had missed.
I also saw this Long-Tailed Skipper trying to blend with a tree.
I found a Phaon Crescent and a Skipper!
Seeing the picture above of that Phaon Crescent, which is on Frogfruit, made me remember that I found some eggs when I was picking food but that I forgot to separate them out. So I just went in the tank to retrieve them. I also saw a chrysalis that looked weird and its because the butterfly didn't emerge all the way. So I had to go take care of that.
I happened upon this White Peacock but it was real skittish. Only got a few photos.
I did see a Spicebush ST but it flew right by me. The Swallowtails should disappear this month. That's all for today, folks!
