Charlie Huttar
@charlie-h
On the journey of a lifetime Cucumference: the distance around a cucumber. "Never judge a gherkin by its cucumference." Oxtet: eight oxen. "I reckon my oxtet can plow this field in one day."
BREAKING NEWS Man comes forward claiming to be JD Vance's son, calls for paternity test.
My neighbor's band played at the Bolingbrook Juneteenth celebration.
Got one more shot of the monarch caterpillar before it disappeared. We don't know if it was done eating and went off to pupate or was eaten.
Our monarch caterpillar has grown quite a bit. Seems to be napping now. It's usually on the underside of a leaf, with just its head showing as it eats the leaf.
It was quite surprising to me that we succeeded in attracting monarchs. It was just from planting seeds in a couple deep pots on our patio:
So it turned out what I thought might be butterfly eggs probably wasn't. Those small white dots are still there and are probably normal growths on the plants. I never spotted any eggs on our milkweed, but today I spotted this:
And I see on some of the plants small white dots which might be monarch eggs:
I realize now I was mistaken, those were probably aphid eggs. But we do have some small caterpillars now. I'm not sure what kind of butterfly or moth.
We planted some milkweed this year for the benefit of monarch butterflies. It seems like it could be working. This seems to match well with the results of the search "images of monarch butterfly eggs":
Pretty big crowd here in Naperville Illinois. I'm going to guess 1500, but hard to see it all. Here's the periphery of the crowd.
For years we enjoyed crocuses popping up in our garden as a sign of spring. We hadn't planted anything there. After a couple decades that we looked into it, and realized they aren't crocuses at all. More than likely Siberian squill. Unpleasant sounding, and an invasive species in these parts.
BREAKING NEWS Citizens of Heard Island gather to protest Trump's new tariffs.