Posted in Casita Colibrí, Flora, Gardens, Travel & Tourism, Weather, tagged African Tulip trees, bougainvillea, flowers, garden, Night Blooming Cereus, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, plumbago, popular travel destinations on June 11, 2018| 8 Comments »
June in Oaxaca city, the mornings are grey.
Bougainvillea
The sun eventually appears.
Plumbago
Afternoon clouds gather and thunder rumbles in the distance.
African tulip tree
Then darkness descends.
Night blooming cereus
Alas, this June only a minimal amount of rain has fallen. But the garden endures.
Posted in Gardens, Nature & Science, tagged Butterfly pupa, Casita Colibrí, Oaxaca, plumbago, video on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Back on January 10th, I posted a photo of a pupa that had materialized on my plumbago while I’d been up in the USA for a month.
What I haven’t mentioned is that the next day, it moved! It began traveling up and down the plumbago. I ran inside, grabbed my new Canon G12, set it to video, and began recording. Video was edited, music was added, and the following resulted:
However, that isn’t the end of the story. I kept close tabs on the terrace’s new resident, checking daily, but no more plumbago strolling; the pupa remained firmly fastened to one of the branches.
Then on April 17th, over 3 months later, I noticed a significant change in the pupa…
A butt protruding? Was a butterfly in the process of emerging??? Daily observations continued… no change. I returned to the USA for a month, returned to find… NO change!
Finally, on July 2nd, I couldn’t stand it any longer. With the Skype encouragement from my friend G, I snipped the pupa from its home of almost six months and began a dissection; the industrial strength silk was peeled away and the woody chrysalis was cut into with my gardening shears… a hollow shell of the “butt end” and an empty cottony interior was revealed!
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