Very strange sight. This came as a result of finding a green, slug-like caterpillar feeding on a pole bean. The animals pupated in confinement in a brown, small case. To see the transformation was a startling discovery. The butterfly was released at night and took to flying almost like a moth.
Nature has a way of cleaning up after itself.
R.K. Sunday, September 5-Monday, September 6. It is slightly rolling and there may have been more hidden in the rough grass. I did see eye stripes and at least two young, had slightly less, down-curved beaks. Wild apples are falling from trees, red maples are turning and the woods' edges glow from yellowing triumvir bracken on the blueberry plains in Kennebunk. Monarch butterflies are swooping past in their annual migration, pausing only to hover and sip at a particularly pleasing flower garden.