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Weather Underground said the temperature at Broad & Washington at 3:00 was 98F. Having read that immediately after coming back from a photo expedition to Broad & Washington, I am convinced that it was significantly warmer in the direct sun. Bleah.

meanwhile, out in the back yard )

Swallowtail

Sep. 1st, 2010 12:24 pm
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The black swallowtail caterpillar seemed to have gone missing when I checked this morning. Then I saw his large self fairly far up the stem/trunk of my variegated basil, which is in the same pot with all the parsley. Accidental detour, or does he plan to pupate there?

And why do I think of all caterpillars as male?

EDIT: Here's a < href="http://bugguide.net/node/view/33939">caption from a website telling how long it took a caterpillar to go from first instar to butterfly:

The first image was taken on June 22; the pupa formed July 2; and the butterfly emerged on July 12, 2005
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I didn't see her but she must have been here, because there's at least one third instar larva on our parsley. I am going to leave the poor thing alone this year and will hope that it succeeds in pupating somewhere that's safe from my winter cleanup.
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Originally uploaded by lb_philly.
Sitting in a hotel meeting room waiting to do a presentation.

This is a butterfly I saw on my way to the meeting site in Silver Spring MD -- first photo outing with the replacement camera.

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