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Upon golden wing take flight, dance the skies as an untethered kite
~K. D’Angelo
Celebrate Butterflies
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Recipe for Sunshine…
Ever wondered how to make sunshine? Mother Nature knows how! Below is "her" recipe for the Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly... Start with an itsy bitsy egg. Set it on the tenderest bud of a Cassia senna plant until it turns the color of sunshine. Then watch closely as the...
Camouflage is a game we all like to play!
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. Russel Lynes These two Anise Swallowtail chrysalises (Papilio zelicaon) express their individuality through color. Despite...
Wow! A Western Tiger Swallowtail egg!!!
After years of searching... I finally found a Western Tiger Swallowtail egg! All fellow "butterfly egg hunters" out there should understand why a celebration of sorts is in order! Butterfly eggs in general can be hard to come by, especially when you are at the mercy...
The Gulf Fritillary, a young artist’s view…
The Gulf Fritillary Divine creation can be seen painted on the canvas of a butterflies wing...© Kristen D'Angelo Artists, young and old alike, love to capture the beauty of butterflies. Above, Elena, age 8, illustrates the Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) with it's...
Future Olympian…
Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) Caterpillars love gymnastics too... Just look at this bridge... such form (excels in eating)... a future olympian to be sure! These flexible feeders bend over backwards for their preferred host plant, Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare),...
The Pygmies…
Western Pygmy Blues Tremendous beauty can be found in the tiniest of things... for who has ever thought to rival that of a butterfly's wing.. ~K. D'Angelo With a wingspan measuring just under a half of an inch (1.2-2 cm) the Western Pygmy-Blue (Brephidium exilis) is...
A beautiful ” Butterfly Effect ” …
This lovely poem was written and kindly shared with us by Mr. Phil Ellsworth. It was composed for Margaret Ellsworth, his beloved wife of 55 years, whom he recently lost. The beautiful prose is a telling of their chance or maybe not so chance (was it the Butterfly...
Butterfly Egg Hatches
Pale Swallowtail Butterfly Egg One of the 3 Pale Swallowtail eggs has darkened up and looks like it's getting ready to hatch. The other two eggs are still clear, I suspect they are duds, but I will know for sure in a couple days. The darkened egg hatches and out...
Coyote Mint
Coyote Mint (Monardella villosa) Have you seen a butterfly nectaring on a particular flower? In my garden, the butterflies prefer to visit the Coyote Mint. Coyote Mint grows to about 2 feet high with soft gray-green leaves and pinkish purple flowers in late spring and...
Pale Swallowtail Butterfly Eggs
Pale Swallowtail Eggs My friend Eva watched a Pale Swallowtail (Pterourus eurymedon) lay eggs on her Peach Tree (Prunus) today, then she gave me the eggs! I'm not sure all 3 eggs will hatch, but I will keep you posted on their progress and let you know what the...