..and I have figured out how to take decent close-up photos of them. See my new butterfly page!

Alex and I were visiting his mother in Washington D.C., and on July 31st, we watched a black swallowtail butterfly flutter into her garden and deposit eggs on a dill plant. We brought three eggs back to Boston, and they all hatched the morning of August 6th. The caterpillars have since quadrupled in size (while […]