When I got home from picking up my CSA box today . . . (see what was in it below -- gets more full every week)
. . . I noticed a pair of White Cabbage Butterflies bouncing around some transplants sitting by the front bed. That's when you know spring has arrived. They pupate over the winter and hatch into butterflies in the spring when they mate. The female goes about looking for members of the mustard family of plants (Cruciferae or Brassicaceae) on which to lay her eggs (which hatch into bad news caterpillars that devour these plants -- especially broccoli and cabbage). I didn't get a clear picture of the butterfly, but you can see the tiny egg she laid on a kale leaf (kale is part of the mustard family) -- the tiny white dot at the bottom edge of the leaf. Needless to say, the egg is no longer there:
. . . I noticed a pair of White Cabbage Butterflies bouncing around some transplants sitting by the front bed. That's when you know spring has arrived. They pupate over the winter and hatch into butterflies in the spring when they mate. The female goes about looking for members of the mustard family of plants (Cruciferae or Brassicaceae) on which to lay her eggs (which hatch into bad news caterpillars that devour these plants -- especially broccoli and cabbage). I didn't get a clear picture of the butterfly, but you can see the tiny egg she laid on a kale leaf (kale is part of the mustard family) -- the tiny white dot at the bottom edge of the leaf. Needless to say, the egg is no longer there:
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