The baby

Congrats on a beautiful butterfly and cat. That first one is always so special...
I found four fat cats on my curassavica back in 1987 and have been hooked since:-)

Nice pics! Did you bring the caterpillar in and watch it pupate? Very much fun.

I didn't have the pleasure of raising any Monarchs this year. Very few sightings in my area, and no eggs laid in the garden. I did see a freshly eclosed Monarch down at the Milkweed field one day last month (about a mile away), and observed some evidence of munching on the Asclepias syriaca there.

yay congrats! yes, the first cat is always special, I named mine after my physician, hehehe, so I wont forget:-), now I am a bonafide monarch mama since July 19, 2013.

Leafhead- I have always enjoyed butterflies but the passed couple of years I have been trying to attract them and finally after much hard work I have with help from my neighbor that really attracted them with her butterfly bush

Terrene- I left him outside because I didn't know how to raise him inside a butterfly net thing, plus I have 3 Swallowtails in there now hopefully about to hatch into butterflies because I just found another baby swallowtail on my parsley.

Hawaii- My daughter named him Johnathan :)