The orange barred sulphur has arrived, most likely minutes after I walked away. In a few hours it will have dried its wings and ready to be released.
Pure sunshine
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Almost
The butterfly house is coming alive with new life this morning. Here’s an orange barred sulphur nearing emergence. It was green last night!
Sulphur galore
The temperatures have been a little cooler, by that I meam a few degrees – still 90s/80s, and a nice, a bit cooler wind, so I’ve gravitated back into the garden after apparently ignoring it for way too long. All of the rain has made everything double, if not triple in size, including the weeds.
So, I’ve decided to tackle the farthest point of the garden and move backward. This area includes a section near my candlestick cassia. The tree is growing in every direction and is crawling with sulphur caterpillars, both orange barred and cloudless sulphur caterpillars.
When cutting back my scorpion tail, I found quite a few chrysalis, which have been moved to my butterfly house.
Busy beauty
The orange barred sulphur butterflies have been super busy in the garden the last few days. This one continuously stopped and deposited eggs on my bahama cassia tree, which will soon be crawling with caterpillars.
Sunshine
We recently had six orange barred sulphurs emerge in our butterfly house.
These butterflies are such a ray of sunshine, always drawing your eyes out the window when fluttering about.
