AWESOM

hehe ya :) uuuu i love swamp milkweed 🦀 i’ve only encountered it once, at the bank of a pond in kansas. the pods looked smaller & cuter to me than the stout goblin zizotes i am accustomed to. i’m excited to be back up and catch the plants again when they’re blooming 🦔

aw precious:) part of why i took this one (and another sibling) in was to protect my own milkweed. there was little food for them where they hatched; my older plants’ above-ground growth had mostly died off and the only other option was teeny seedlings that i didn’t want the grubs getting at 🤏

pics from yesterday:) with closeup photography of the polka dot child’s face & scales 👁️👁️

i abducted them as a grub early in january before everything became encased in ice & collected the milkweed that’s always growing at any given time across my neighborhood 🌱🐛 in return they shat on the cutting board

thank u! ❤️🐛

🌱 calleta silkmoth eggs on texas sage leaves, young silkmoth baby, queen baby i found lurking in my milkweed when i was reunited with my plants last month, and monarch babies this morning

+ detail shots & Wingscapes while i’m still getting used to this camera :) the creature rested a long time on the leaf’s underside. all photos minus the second-to-last are reoriented 180° 🌱

GORGEOUS goodheavens

ohh AWESOM..

it is a good genre of image :) i can offer u yesterday’s important ibis 🦀

GORGEOUS