I love that we have many host plant foods planted in the yard for the butterflies that come through. This year has been a banner years for the American Lady butterfly whose host plant is pussytoes. It spreads throughout the yard willy-nilly but isn't a pain and we leave it in where it comes up. I did pot up about 5 different containers of it for friends to add to their yards. This first pot has about 5 caterpillars on the plant.
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| Here you see another caterpillar and 2 chrysalis on the pussytoes. |
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| Close up of American Lady butterfly chrysalis. |
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| This American lady butterfly just emerged from it's chrysalis which is seen in the picture to the left. |
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