Butterfly Garden Update: Black Eyed Susans, Pollination

My butterfly garden now has a few black eyed susan (rudbeckia hirta) flowers coming on. I saw bees pollinating them one day, so that means they will produce more black eyed susans later! Black eyed susans are my grandmother's favorite flowers. Also, we have dill on its way.
My zinnias are doing very well and one whole side of my garden is already covered with zinnias, both high and low!
One day, I saw two variegated frittilary butterflies come to my garden! I quietly watched as one of them came to around 24/30 of the zinnias. I saw bees pollinating the zinnias, too, and I'm already wondering if the flowers in our butterfly garden will just make it and produce pretty new zinnias and black eyed susans.

Caterpillar Update: Frizz's Chrysalis

Frizz made himself a web for his cocoon! It is made of his settae (or hairs). And it is transparent, so we can see inside to watch what happens over time! Over time, Frizz is developing - he curled up and made three little colored bean-looking items. Maybe they are food! Nature is so mysterious... So that's why he didn't go eat the lettuce on the bottom. Now I'll have to leave him alone for a few days until he turns into a butterfly. I can't wait! Here's another picture that I found on google.

Caterpillar Update: Mr. Hungry

Our caterpillar ate the lettuce we gave it down to the STEM!!! We named him Frizz and put another few little pieces of lettuce in for him to munch on. Now we know what he eats!

Plants From the Garden

Mom and I just went to our garden and picked yellow squash, cucumbers, peas, green beans, and lettuce. We found a caterpillar among the peas. We googled it and found out it was a yellow bear caterpillar. I first thought it was a woolly bear caterpillar, which turns into a white moth with black spots. A few of them came into our house. I can't wait to watch the caterpillar transform into a butterfly! We put it in our butterfly habitat with a piece of lettuce. We tried to take some pictures, but they didn't come out clearly, so we found one off google. Nature is so amazing!