Oh I was just thinking about the same thing for a week now Melanie. We are covered in butterflies and it's so late in the year. They look like newborns too, all bright & shiny & fresh & colorful! Every time I see them I think, You should have stayed in your chrysalis! How do you expect to mate, lay eggs & the eggs have time to hatch & the cats molt & grow & molt & grow & molt & go into a chrysalis? There's not enough time!!! Someone is going to freeze." And then I get all paranoid & think, "They know better than we do. OMG! What if summer is here to stay this year?
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Today I was gape jawed. EVERY where I looked were Zebra Long Wings. They were all over our place & they all seemed to be the same size - a little small for the species - & all with brand new looks like shiny new cars. They must have all been from the same egg clutch. I counted 7, yes, that's 7 of them all at one time, sipping on my blackberry lily & you guessed it folks... the camera was in the house & I was up on the top of the hill.
I left the 7 there & came down & there were 3 flitting around the firespike.
