End of April

I had just read ESP's post in which he had a picture of these little eggs attached by a single thread to the underside of one of his bamboo leaves. So, you can imagine my surprise when I went out to check on my garden and, in checking for aphids on my pepper plants (in the past pepper and eggplant always seemed to have problems with aphids...as did the sunflower, but considering that the sunflower was a volunteer deposited in my yard by one of the helpful neighborhood birds, I could care less about aphids and skippers and ants on the sunflower), I noticed these:

Lacewing eggs

Another picture of some more of my Dillcats (the first one I took a picture of, by the way, disappeared. Like totally and completely. It wasn't even close to chrysalis stage, and it was just gone. POOF. Like the Langoliers. Poor Langolier Caterpillar. ):

Black Swallowtail Caterpillar on Dill

And a final picture; the first of the Confederate Jasmine flowers:

Confederate Jasmine flowers