Small town family, Mollie, Will, Abigail, and Owen Smiley and Briar

Urbanna is an old historic town on the Rappahannock River. Its a small town with a big heart. As a family we try to eat local, grow as much food as we can in our own yard, try to raise children with an ecological identity, play hard, exercise, explore our area, fish, ride bikes, swim, and snuggle

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Black Swallowtail

While investigating the garden I found two caterpillars in our dill. I was about to smoosh them when I looked harder at them to see their amazing markings. Therefore I decided to leave them and look them up online. It turns out that they are Black Swallowtail caterpillars. We need the dill in order to pickle for the winter, but we decided to let them hang out in order to have cool butterflies in our garden.


We can't find the caterpillars anymore so maybe they have found a place to change into a flying critter.


blackswallowtail.jpg
This is the butterfly we hope to get out of our garden
Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)