Date: 12/14/2011

Number: 1

Last week I had five caterpillars that I brought inside and fed the remaining few leaves from my milkweed. They went in to the chrysalis stage, and I then took them to the Texas Discovery Gardens since I knew the outside flowers here had died off and there would be no food for them when the emerged.

Last night I was walking my yard and I found a butterfly that I had apparently missed when it was a cat. He had just emerged not to long before I found him. I moved him to a more sheltered area where his wings could continue to dry, hung him upside down, and kept checking on him for a short time. I gave him some shelter from the rain, and when I checked this morning he had flown away.
I am pretty sure there is no food for him around here, but I am still hopeful. It will not be freezing here this week, according to the extended forecast. So maybe he can get a bit of distance and find some sort of nectar.

Plano, TX

Latitude: 33.1 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Rhonda
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