Twice in as many days Robbie has trapped them under the sofa. Obviously, I must just change my approach. Blocking is not working. I will just stuff one of the skirt edges up under the sofa pillow. Robbie can manage to push under the skirt when going under the sofa. For some reason they cannot push it up to come out from under the sofa. Robots. But it is really clean under the sofa now.
By the time I had dressed, eaten my breakfast and completed a couple of chores the rain had stopped. Hubby had noticed a new being on our rue plant a couple of days earlier. Yesterday's attempt with the long lens did not suit me. A change of lens and I was ready to see if the closeups could be a bit better.
Let me say up front we have no idea what this caterpillar is. See if you can figure it out from these photos.
It is certainly different than any I have seen before. Possibly a hawk moth or owl butterfly type of thing. Just found it on this website! Papilio cresphontes, larva, will become a type of Giant Swallowtail. That's something for us to watch to see if it begins to move to the next stage of development.
Not much else going on here today.
Take care cause the virus is raising its ugly head around here again. Folks not wearing masks and running around like everything is just fine. It is not. In the State of Texas the percentage of newly detected virus cases in relationship to the number of folks tested in any given day has steadily increased from 5.9 % on June 1 to 7.54% on June 23. One and a half does not sound like much. Since I began on June 3 tracking the # of viral tests each day the average number of tests is 29526. That 1.5% = about 472 more infected people per day statewide.
We live on the line between Travis and Williamson counties. Travis county on June 10 had 535 total confirmed active cases. June 23 Travis has 1783 active cases. Williamson county on June 10 had 148 confirmed active cases. The confirmed active cases has risen to 607 in Williamson county. The number of cases requiring hospitalization statewide has fluctuated from 8.84%, June 1, 7.85%, June 11, 8.63% June 23. Since June 1 the number of recovered individuals have gone from 43338 to 70714. During the same period the statewide number of Covid confirmed cases hospitalized has increased from 1756 to 4092.
So, yes, stay home, stay safe. Only, three of my grandkids are working as servers, delivery and counter persons at restaurants. They are definitely working in high risk. Face masks and gloves are their protection.
Peace,
Janice
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteComplacency and the itch to get on with life are what will determine the long-term presence of COVID... Folk here are getting very tetchy about it all.
Now - I wonder if you will be able to keep that 'pillar around long enough to see it transform?!! YAM xx
My older sisters are itchy to get out and have been doing their own shopping. They mask and glove up but still worrisome.
DeleteToday I found a second larvae that is only about 1/4 inch long. Doubles the chances to see a butterfly!
namaste, janice xx
That caterpillar looks like it could be a crocodile in a very young stage. Quite scary looking.
ReplyDeleteYou see Janice, it's all the testing they do! Less testing would result in fewer cases. At least so says DT the I. Ha, clue in the name there. Forget that!
We do lots of testing which reveal plenty of infections, yet the hospitalisations and deaths are getting fewer by the day.
I thought the caterpillar was not a happy looking thing. Our president is not fit for the job. Our governor is pretty much a boot licker to the president.
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