The Life Cycle Continues

The continuing story of our caterpillar rescue....

We left the rescued chrysalids carefully protected and pegged to other plants in our garden. Over the holidays they all hatched and this is all I could find when I went to check on them in the second week of the holidays. If you look very closely, you can see the almost transparent 'case' still attached to the dead seed pod.
Meantime, other eggs hatched on some of the rescued plants and branches which we are keeping alive in a bucket of water in the garden. There are at least five new caterpillars living on these branches.


Can you find the tiny water droplet in this photo?

And, the aphids are back too. There is no sign of any ladybirds or their larvae but I'm sure it won't be long before they turn up.

If you look very closely, you might see and ant on one of the leaves, heading towards the aphids to collect their 'honey dew'.


Thursday 28th April - I found some ladybirds very near the aphids. Can you see how close they are?