My Pet Caterpillar!

[Catherine]

I have never seen a pupa in my garden, but I found empty pupa cases at the shelter garden. They were monarch butterfly cases so we produced monarchs last year. There are a lot of milk weed plants for the caterpillars and other flowers for the adults. It is a perfect set up for them.

I have milkweed in my garden and flowers so I really hope I get monarch caterpillars this year. You will hear about it if I do.

Five weeks seems like a long time. I am sure many people would give up and think the creature had died. That is why butterflies are such a perfect Easter symbol. Just when you think it is too late life bursts forth!

I don't have butterflies this Easter, but I do have plants starting to grow. There are no flowers yet, but it won't be long.
Nature is amazing. In a few weeks we will forget we ever had winter.