Posted in animals, csa, photo, vegetables, tagged butterfly, caterpillar, csa, fennel on December 6, 2012| 1 Comment »
While packing shares last Friday, farm hand Victor spotted this beauty.
CSA members, did you look carefully at the fronds of fennel that was in your share box last week? You might have been lucky enough to get a caterpillar!
Look carefully, there’s a thin line holding it in place on the branch of fennel. The caterpillar is starting its transformation into a chrysalis, and from there, will emerge as a butterfly. Anybody got any ideas what what kind of butterfly this might become?
Posted in animals, csa, farm, photo, tagged caterpillar on November 18, 2011| 9 Comments »
Hungry muncher in the bunch of dill.
Anybody have an idea what kind of caterpillar this is? It showed up in the bunch of dill that I was arranging when I came to photograph this week’s share. Despite the attention from my camera’s giant glass eye, the hungry caterpillar kept on munching. I put it on a plant outside the barn. Keep your eyes open because there could be more lurking. Margie said she spotted another caterpillar and picked off another one in a different bunch of dill.
I also heard a cricket chirping in my share box! Haven’t found it yet, and not sure where it is. Always an adventure with farm food!
Redland Rambles 