so lucky
Garden Master
I went down stairs a few moments ago and saw a smallish black thing writhing on the floor. ??what?? A dying mouse? A bat? No, on closer inspection, I see it is a black swallowtail butterfly, in its "birthing" throes. You know how crippled and vulnerable they look when they first come out of their pupae. But what was it doing in my basement? It's too early for them outside, so maybe it hitched a ride inside on one of my houseplants? And then time and warm temps inside made it hatch out.
I didn't know what else to do with it, and didn't think it would survive long in the basement. Maybe the wrong thing to do, but I put it out in the garden in the parsley. It is not particularly warm today, but not freezing. Supposed to be warm the next few days. But, still...maybe I should have kept it in? Should I go out and bring it back in? Give it some sugar water? feed it to the chickens?
I didn't know what else to do with it, and didn't think it would survive long in the basement. Maybe the wrong thing to do, but I put it out in the garden in the parsley. It is not particularly warm today, but not freezing. Supposed to be warm the next few days. But, still...maybe I should have kept it in? Should I go out and bring it back in? Give it some sugar water? feed it to the chickens?