Spring is arriving amidst up and down temperatures and false starts. Bleeding hearts have blossomed but the forecast is for a hard freeze, so they are likely to be nipped out of the bud.
I discovered a hardy swallowtail survivor as well. It had formed a chrysalis last fall by attaching to the back gate post. It’s a very good area for protection from weather but very bad because it’s so close to the gate lock. So I’ve locked that gate until this chrysalis hatches.
We also had the fourth of the wintering-over swallowtails emerge from a chrysalis. We’ve have six chrysalises that didn’t hatch during the last days of summer and I collected them and put them in the garage. Four have hatched.
Posted on April 5th, 2009 by larryhol
Filed under: Butterflies
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