Monarch Eggs & Black Swallowtail Caterpillars

For those waiting to adopt, see below:

Monarch & Monarch Eggs

Black Swallowtail and Black Swallowtail caterpillar.

Check back with us to see the progress of your babies.

Did Someone Say Spring?

How absolutely magnificent it is to see all the flowers. It is the most wonderful experience to sit and enjoy the garden views and fragrances of spring on the bench behind these beauties.

Correctly Identified

One of our readers correctly identified the plant shown on the picture of the posting for Feb 3rd. The plant is the Mexican Flame Vine. This plant is common in South Texas and is a host for the yet unidentified butterfly or moth. We are still looking for the ID of this lovely caterpillar. If you know what this creature transforms to let us know by emailing me directly or click the comment button on this post. We would love to hear from you.

iracavazos@hotmail.com

Anticipation

The above beauties have already been seen in our garden. We are in great anticipation for Spring. How lovely!

Prolific Flower Producer

This plant flowers profusely, so much so, this little guy just can't keep up.

Our mission to all who read this is; "What is the name of this plant? and, What will this little guy look like when he is done transforming?

Please let us all know by commenting or sending us your opinions to iracavazos@hotmail.com.

Program to Watch

There is an excellent program coming up Tuesday (Jan 27, 2009) on PBS which I would like to encourage all butterfly lovers to watch. The program is by Nova tittled "The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies". Check your local listing for this program. You will have a chance to see it on line as well the day after it airs on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/butterflies/.

Those of you that adopted butterflies for release this past season will without a doubt enjoy the program especially.

Also check out the Migration Information on the sidebar to the right of this post.

EXCITING NEWS FOR SPRING

We will have butterfly adoptions coming in spring, summer & fall. Monarch butterflies in a lovely bug box with magnifying glass adoptions for release that can be used as part of an education program. (Only for east of the Rockies.) We hope to provide these for $7.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Let us know if this is of interest to you by an e-mail to iracavazos@hotmail.com.