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playswithworms

Hatchification!

Aug 18, 2010 22:15

Remember monarch butterfly chrysalis on the water willow?

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Comments 13

amiricol August 19 2010, 03:06:40 UTC

EEEEEEEEEEEe Butterfly!!! Sp prettty!

Smidge dozing ever so cute, and I love the Youtube video. Even if you didn't take it, its still aweesome to see. Thankyou.

And I'm having a sugar high so you must excuse me.... :)

playswithworms August 19 2010, 12:43:50 UTC

Butterfly was so gorgeous, drying its wings in the morning sun ^^

Smidge is getting quite adorable, with her little fuzzy self <3 and glad you enjoyed the meteors!

Sugar high! :D

mmouse15 August 19 2010, 03:33:35 UTC

How amazing that you got to watch that butterfly hatch! Wow, wow, wow, what a great experience!

Smidge is growing so much! She is such a cutie!

We didn't get a good view of the shower, so thanks for sharing the vid - it's nice to show to the kids.

playswithworms August 19 2010, 12:54:47 UTC

That was the best timing ever :D

Smidge is almost (not quite) a entire handful! Hard to believe she use to be a little thumb-size baby ^^

I hadn't had good viewing conditions for the Perseids for several years in a row, so I was totally psyched to catch them this year. The video is pretty much exactly what I saw in an hour or so, compressed into 14 seconds ^_^

eerian_sadow August 19 2010, 04:08:43 UTC

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! pretty butterfly! and pretty (maybe) daddy! and smidge is adorable! and your roses are gorgeous! <3

playswithworms August 19 2010, 12:56:05 UTC

Hee hee - thank you! \o/ What a world, what a world...

eerian_sadow August 19 2010, 16:49:34 UTC

it is a pretty cool world.

ex_naggingf August 19 2010, 09:33:21 UTC

oh how wonderful, to see the butterfly emerge from its chrysalis! It looks so bright and crisp :D

playswithworms August 19 2010, 12:58:19 UTC

I've seen the process several times, but it never gets old - especially one in my very own yard :D This one was so pretty, drying its wings in the morning sun.

japankasasagi August 26 2010, 10:12:27 UTC

This is totally out of nowhere, but I found this post that I think will make you squee like a supernova: http://community.livejournal.com/wtf_nature/485861.html

playswithworms August 26 2010, 15:37:50 UTC

*goes 'splodey* OMG LOOKIT THE WEE LITTLE FROGGLING!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDD <333333333333333

Awesome project, as well, with the surveys for missing amphibian species - it was big news a few decades back, but seemed like it kind of dropped off the radar in recent years. Thanks for the link!

japankasasagi August 27 2010, 09:50:16 UTC

I was so stunned they found something like that, since amphibians are dying off at an alarming rate. Also, did you look through the comments and see the link to the other adorable photo? If not, here's the link: http://www.ad.nl/static/FOTO/pe/13/0/7/media_xl_204187.jpg?20100825165846

I turned it into an icon, I want to use it for... SOMEthing here on LJ!

playswithworms August 28 2010, 02:04:29 UTC

EEEEEEEEE!!! Pencil tip froglet - good golly, can it get any cuter? <33333333333333

And yeah, that's quite a discovery, to find an entirely new species like that! Frogs are tricky though - you have to be in the right place at exactly the right time for some of them, (the toads in my park all sing for about one week, and then you only see an odd one or two until next spring) so not too surprising that some species or populations might get missed.