Alan, they leave here and head to Mexico. One thing really interesting is that a study was done to see whether butterflies whose chrysalises are moved from where they were made get disoriented. They took chrysalises from Chicago and moved them to somewhere in Ohio....about 1000 miles. When the butterflies emerged they put tags on them so they could track them. The butterflies started out heading due south, as they would to go from Chicago to Mexico. But! Part way they simply made a course correction!! AMAZING!!
How one failed drug ensnared so many GOP lawmakers [Click] Better they should resort to more classical methods, like dead drops. “Really, I have no idea how those C-notes got into the bag; I thought it was a bag of lettuce, officer!”
I've been oil painting!! Then tonight we had a family event. Tomorrow I have FOUR spiritual guidance meetings, then a theatre play in the evening. Whoo! I'll sleep good!
I have actually found 14 Monarch caterpillars this season. The very first one I found had probably been feasting for 5 days, so was still pretty little. But the poor thing was still when I found it and days later hadn't moved. Sad. Yesterday we lost a second one. It hadn't moved at all in 4 days, and was attached to the glass of the jar. I surmise that for some reason it was unable to shed its skin, so could not eat more. The poor creature! Eventually, figuring it had died (and needing the jar) I took it off the glass, ever so gently, and it moved it's head and antennae a little! But it merely lay on its side, would not eat, then its middle started to turn a brown colour. I googled it and learned that sometimes a caterpillar encounters a parasite or bacteria that creates that end. Others never even hatch because wasps lay eggs IN their egg! I also have learned that only 10% of caterpillars in the wild survive to become butterflies! So I feel just a little comforted to think that we've lost only 2 out of 14. I have given 2 chrysalises to grands, have FIVE chrysalises here right now (!!), and have 5 more caterpillars munching away. Still awaiting the emergence of the first butterfly. It starts to get really exciting next week!
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Alan, they leave here and head to Mexico. One thing really interesting is that a study was done to see whether butterflies whose chrysalises are moved from where they were made get disoriented. They took chrysalises from Chicago and moved them to somewhere in Ohio....about 1000 miles. When the butterflies emerged they put tags on them so they could track them. The butterflies started out heading due south, as they would to go from Chicago to Mexico. But! Part way they simply made a course correction!! AMAZING!!
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Wow! Tonight the Current Fires and Smoke locations site shows the smoke has reached the Atlantic!
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Smoke the same here today--about two miles visibility.
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I've been oil painting!! Then tonight we had a family event. Tomorrow I have FOUR spiritual guidance meetings, then a theatre play in the evening. Whoo! I'll sleep good!
And right this minute, a thunderstorm! YEAH!!
I have actually found 14 Monarch caterpillars this season. The very first one I found had probably been feasting for 5 days, so was still pretty little. But the poor thing was still when I found it and days later hadn't moved. Sad. Yesterday we lost a second one. It hadn't moved at all in 4 days, and was attached to the glass of the jar. I surmise that for some reason it was unable to shed its skin, so could not eat more. The poor creature! Eventually, figuring it had died (and needing the jar) I took it off the glass, ever so gently, and it moved it's head and antennae a little! But it merely lay on its side, would not eat, then its middle started to turn a brown colour. I googled it and learned that sometimes a caterpillar encounters a parasite or bacteria that creates that end. Others never even hatch because wasps lay eggs IN their egg! I also have learned that only 10% of caterpillars in the wild survive to become butterflies! So I feel just a little comforted to think that we've lost only 2 out of 14. I have given 2 chrysalises to grands, have FIVE chrysalises here right now (!!), and have 5 more caterpillars munching away. Still awaiting the emergence of the first butterfly. It starts to get really exciting next week!
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