November 1, 2008

Cloudless sulfur

Well, for some reason I haven't yet figured out, Blogger is
posting my pictures in the opposite order that I uploaded
them. So instead of starting with caterpillars and scrolling
down to the lovely adult specimen, you'll have to go
backwards in time. Oh well....

I saw a female Cloudless Sulfur butterfly laying eggs on
a little cassia tree. Now that same plant is just loaded with
eggs and small caterpillars.



Beautiful female



I've never seen a sulfur chrysalis this color before.




Green larva on leaves



Yellow larva on flowers (buds in this case)