Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Farewell, Queens

The queen butterflies finally emerged on November 25, and I released them the next day - a male and a female.  These are the last of my foster caterpillars for the year.
Female Queen Butterfly


Male Queen Butterfly.  You can tell the difference because the male has the scent spot (i.e. white spot) on his hind wing.



The butterflies sunned themselves for a few hours before taking off.

As I headed back inside, I checked the milkweed plant.

Uh oh...looks like we have a few more left for the season.

1 comment:

Roberta said...

You were such a good hostess to the caterpillars. Good job. I enjoyed the caterpillar chronicles very much.