November 10, 2013 - Gulf Fritallary Update

Last week I mentioned that I had seen a Gulf Fritillary Butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) landing on our Passion Flower vine (Passaflora incarnata). Since there were no flowers on the vine I suspected it might be laying eggs. I searched and sure enough found some.

Gulf Fritillary Egg

Today I saw my first caterpillar from the batch of eggs.

Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar

No chrysallis yet, but I'll keep checking. We're expecting some temperatures in the 30's by Tuesday morning, approximately 36 hours from now. I don't know if they'll survive that.