I finally remembered to take another pic of the view across the rear yard for my Friends? page last Friday. Then I forgot to post it.
This weekend has been rough, for reasons good and bad I’ll post about as time permits.
Month: August 2018
Site Change: Added new pic to “Friends?” – taken Friday
Bug in the wood sorrel.
Notices given on this rainy Friday night
I am sleep deprived between staying up all night for yesterday’s two monarch butterflies, not being able to fall asleep later until that late night, and then again further when my partner woke me up at 6am to let me know the next two were well on their way out too. I hope to write about today tomorrow afternoon or so after some more sleep.
I also have a pumpkin update I will post about sometime this weekend.
Possibly some other pictures too.
Guardianship update: 16th August 2018 #3
I’m a dummy. Not going to post for a while because in the time it took me download four pics, resize them and make my last post, this happened…
Guardianship update: 16th August 2018 #2
I fretted a lot overnight. I kept checking the monarch disease pages, dismissed OE and pondered “black death” after one older site pic I found that had a pure black chrysalis. Nope…nope…behold!
What a difference! Continue reading “Guardianship update: 16th August 2018 #2”
What? I’m looking for my fiddle!
Guardianship update: 16th August 2018 #1
This week has been all sorts of lessons. The chrysalis I first noticed the faintest bits of orange through the green is still developing, but sometime in the last six hours, two nearby rapidly changed to the image below, which is the best shot I could manage at this hour.
Guardianship update: 15th August 2018
Two firsts today: I happened to catch a J transforming into chrysalis. If I had strolled by sooner, I might not have realized it was that far along if not for the visually striking difference between larvae skin and sudden bulge of light green. Also, this happened…
