Saturday ~ Sunday

 Saturday morning before I left town:

Sunday evening when I returned:

 

I missed the final stage of metamorphosis.  :-(
But, looking forward to those butterflies in our garden  ;-)


A new herd of hatchlings?

 The large caterpillars all disappeared, but 2 days later 3 larger caterpillars and lots of babies appeared. Didn't see the eggs they hatched from . . .

 

Two days later they looked like this: 



 

April 30th -- One week later...

So, I thought these were baby black swallowtail caterpillars, but

after some research I discovered that they're actually a phase of ladybug larve!

 



Spring Gems

Dutch Iris

 

Bearded Iris



Coreopsis

 

Yellow Belle



 

 Rachel's succulent garden

 

Salmon Geranium

Organic Cabbage

Butter Crunch Lettuce

 



Quince fruit

 

Quince blossoms

Indoor African Violets



Featuring Miss Ladbug

 

 

 



Chrysalis!

 

Where oh, where did my fat caterpillars go?

This is the only chrysalis I can find among the dill stalks! 

In My Garden

busy bee

ladybug

 

snail

 

 
caterpillar - ready to spin?

Second round of flowering quince encouraged by the rain!

Caterpillar Acrobatics

 creepy crawler - getting fatter

 

I think we're about ready to spin a cocoon!

 

 still hungry!