Thursday, July 24, 2008

Surprise Visitors

When one plants a garden, you can always expect a few surprises and that's exactly how I felt when I spotted a few of these guys chowing down on my dill plants:



That's an Eastern black swallowtail caterpillar dining in a herb patch at the edge of our veggie garden. They sure are hungry little critters! Anyway, they have sinced moved on, possibly "cocooning" somewhere close by. The adult butterfly looks like this:



It's a bit of a challenge to get these guys to pose for a picture.

Note to myself: next year plant lots of dill!

4 comments:

... said...

i think your pictures are great. the whole catapillar-butterfly thing has always fascinated me. i'd find their cocoons and keep a daily eye on them for when they emerge.

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