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Apr. 22nd, 2021 09:43 pmWeekeeeeeeeend
Had some nice coffee, got this week's bread started (a raisin walnut loaf) and went outside to check on the garden things.
So in my last post (yesterday) my chrysalides looked like this:
And this is how they were Wednesday morning:
AAAAAAAAH!!! They're ready!
I tried not to freak out and went about my day as usual, but checked on them frequently to see if I could catch the emergence when it happened (it's called "eclosing", but that word is weird so I'm not much using it). I got the bread on its 3-hour rise, then went out to the garden to plant my milkweed and finish checking on stuffs. The bananas really are getting bigger!
Look at the weird flower bud of the black sapote.
A recent storm ripped out part of the screen in our lanai, so the creatures can get in.
My boyfriend came out to check out the chrysalides and found a banded sphinx moth in a corner of the pool deck!
I fished her out with the pool net and took her to a shady tree, where I hope she'll be more comfortable.
I planted three milkweed and the roselle plant in the pollinator garden. Hopefully no one else will lay eggs for a while so the milkweed can recover from being eaten. After finishing that project I wanted to wash my hands and prepare to interact with the bread again. As I was walking past the butterfly enclosure, I saw that one of the black chrysalides was cracking open!!
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Had some nice coffee, got this week's bread started (a raisin walnut loaf) and went outside to check on the garden things.
So in my last post (yesterday) my chrysalides looked like this:
And this is how they were Wednesday morning:
AAAAAAAAH!!! They're ready!
I tried not to freak out and went about my day as usual, but checked on them frequently to see if I could catch the emergence when it happened (it's called "eclosing", but that word is weird so I'm not much using it). I got the bread on its 3-hour rise, then went out to the garden to plant my milkweed and finish checking on stuffs. The bananas really are getting bigger!
Look at the weird flower bud of the black sapote.
A recent storm ripped out part of the screen in our lanai, so the creatures can get in.
My boyfriend came out to check out the chrysalides and found a banded sphinx moth in a corner of the pool deck!
I fished her out with the pool net and took her to a shady tree, where I hope she'll be more comfortable.
I planted three milkweed and the roselle plant in the pollinator garden. Hopefully no one else will lay eggs for a while so the milkweed can recover from being eaten. After finishing that project I wanted to wash my hands and prepare to interact with the bread again. As I was walking past the butterfly enclosure, I saw that one of the black chrysalides was cracking open!!
( Read more... )
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