Oh! Em! Gee!

Previously, on planetpooks…

Remember the Harvest Monday gift I shared, the caterpillar we brought home from Garden Cafe (as a teensy egg on some organic dill weed I bought from their garden)?

caterpillar

It disappeared. We assumed (hoped) it had formed a chrysalis, but we never found it. Still haven’t found it.

But look what I did find this morning at 5:30 a.m. when I was struggling with the coffee maker?

black swallowtail

Of course there is not a blooming plant around and we aren’t past freeze risks, so for now it lives in a plastic box with air holes and a bit of agave nectar, and we will be taking it to the butterfly garden at Fair Park.

 

 

2 Comments

  1. Elisa
    Feb 7, 2013

    Wow, he is gorgeous! What a lovely gift :)

  2. DENISE
    Feb 11, 2013

    Nice reward

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