#chrysalis
Aside from a lot of fun smaller cosplays I’m working on, I’m working on a bigger original for this summer. Sometimes I worry when I put my own original spin on something everyone won’t like it, but at this point I just wanna make what I like!
My original Chrysalis!
#mlp #mlpfim #originalcharacter #chrysalis
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I’ve designed a new bunnysuit for this spring, & will be avoiding blue for this one! I didn’t realize I had so many of the same color palates Now I just have to find time to make it! I’m excited, it’s a character I love so much!
#ryoko #ryokohakubi #belldandy #chrysalis #mlp #bunnygirlcosplay
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Retouched a bit, trying to get the effect from episode 3, you know which one… OK if you don’t it’s ‘cause I didn’t do it right.
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Before I fell asleep, I would imagine a cloth wrapping around my head, muffling my face. Uninhibited in dreams, I feared that I would give myself away. Thank you to the LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, and allies whose voices encouraged me to free my truth.
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Plain nawab butterfly caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult
Polyura hebe, Charaxinae, found in Southeast Asia
Photos 1-5 by richardking and 6 by budak
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Commission. New transformation series. This time, Applejack is in peril!
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160505 Dream Girls - I.O.I.
THE BUTTERFLY HATCHED!!!!
They’re Cabbage Butterflies (Pieris rapae) which doesn’t surprise me, except that the colour of the chrysalis is way different! We have these everywhere, and I have already fed two of the caterpillars from the same plant to my mantises, and they are sure destructive! But as adults, these butterflies are beneficial pollinators. So… my mantises aren’t getting any Mexican Wedding Cookies today.
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Once this one’s wings are dry tomorrow, I will let him go free. Hopefully the other one hatches, too. I’d love to keep them, but I don’t feel like setting up an entire butterfly habitat when I already have so many buggies, and these guys aren’t anything special for this area.
((Now if they were Western Monarchs… I would devote as much time and effort as I could to raise and release more… I’m still SO upset about their population decline, even if the numbers for this year are looking more hopeful than last year. I’m still struggling to even get Milkweed to survive in my yard, though. At least I still have more seeds I can plant.))
Still, it was fun to suddenly see a butterfly when I checked on the enclosure. I see so many of their orangey eggs on my mustard plant, I may need to remove it from the planter where I have radishes (because the radishes are getting nibbled now, too, even if they don’t have eggs…)
#butterfly #butterflies #chrysalis #chrysalises #cocoon #cocoons #pierisrapae #insect #insects #insectkeeping #bugkeeping #bug #bugs #garden #gardening #california #cali #pandemicgardening #zone9b #zone9 #zone9garden #pollinator #pollinators (at Santa Barbara County, California)
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TW INSECTS WORMS CHRYSALIS CATERPILLARS
WHAT IS THIS?!?!?! Looks like fresh Swallowtail butterfly cocoons, but I’m not sure, it’s hard to find a quickguide on just the chrysalis pics of California insects.
My mom saw one on her kale plant (IN the house overnight, bc the plant comes in at night) and said an entire leaf was missing/eaten down overnight, and to come give the worm to my mantises before it eats more…
So I look, and it’s not moving. I see a second one and poke them a bit to try and see what they do, but they’re not even grabbing the leaf or moving, and they look like chrysalises. It’s too hard to see them outside in the sun where the plant goes out during the day, so I decide to pull them off so I can look at them inside, and AHAH! They’re attached by a string of silk, onto a mat of silk that’s then attached to the kale leaves. So, I pinned the silk mats to some fabric to leave them hanging in a critter carrier.
I have no idea how to care for butterflies, but I guess being The Bug Guy is now my life, so why not. ((If anyone knows what they are, please share! I’m on the central coast of Cali.))
#chrysalis #chrysalises #cocoon #cocoons #larva #pupa #caterpillar #caterpillars #butterfly #butterflies #moth #moths #insect #insects #bug #bugs #insectidentification #swallowtail #swallowtailbutterfly #garden #gardening #zone9 #zone9garden #zone9b #california #pandemicgardening #kaleplant (at Santa Barbara County, California)
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a splendid plan
11.21.21.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies, by Robert Michael Pyle
It may be April Fool’s Day today, but I assure you this is no joke. I’m happy to announce that I’ll be using another field guide to help with insect identification. Previously I only had the Insect and Spiders Guide (also the Rocks & Minerals and Reptiles & Amphibians guides), but this book just arrived today. I’ll be looking through it in depth, but having just briefly looked through its contents, it’ll be a big help. For those not familiar with Audubon Society Field Guides, the books are structured to make identification relatively easy. The Butterflies are sorted into their family groups, each section accompanied by a silhouette of a typical specimen. In each section are wonderful photographs of Butterflies out in the field (some have 2 pictures since the top and bottom of the wing can feature different colors or patterns), their common name and a page number. The page number is used to locate the description of the insect in the back of the guide. For example: In Picture 6 the Desert Swallowtail says, p. 329. Scrolling to that page you can find pointers identification, range, behaviors and other facts. Since the guidebook it covers all of North America, there’s bound to be a few species I’ll never see (and even a few species not in the book), but it’ll be fun to learn about them nonetheless. I’m looking forward to using this book in between insect hunts to figure out the identities of some more peculiar Lepidopterans!
Since this is a Butterfly guide, there are no pictures of Moths, but there are descriptions of Caterpillars,Chrysalids and eggs. And since Skippers are Butterflies, you’ll find them here too. Me personally, I’d like to see an Audubon guide to North American Beetles given the sheer variety of Beetles out there. For more information, check the guidebooks directly at the NAS webpage.
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