Kissing a Toad

Toad : "Hi, Big Fella!"

Toad : "Move over. You are in my way!"

Clifford : "I must be dreaming...zz..."

Clifford : "Mom! It's a talking toad!!!"

Goldee : "Beware! The last one I chewed on made my mouth white and foamy.

I ended up looking like a clown with huge, white lips."

Clifford : "I guess a peck is harmless. It's cute."

Toad : "Er...Excuse, me."

Toad : "Stop drooling on me. I don't want to get any slimier."

Toad : "Yikes! I need a bath right now! 

Toad : "In case you are wondering, I do not have royal blood in me. I am NOT a frog and shall NOT change into a prince."

Citrus Butterfly

I always consider myself fortunate whenever I get to take close-up shots of butterflies.

Today I am more than fortunate. 

I managed to see this butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.

This is a Citrus Butterfly, Lime Butterfly, or Papilio Demoleus.

Can you imagine that such beauty only last for 5 days?

A butterfly doesn't have a mouth to bite nor chew.

It has a long straw like structure called proboscis that it uses to drink nectar. 

When not in use, it is coiled up.

When the butterfly was young and green, it wore a 'hair band'.

This caterpillar has a red tongue that resembles snake fangs.

This is the final stage of the caterpillar, shortly before it became a pupa.

When the caterpillar was even younger, it looked less attractive. 

Can you see why they are called 'bird droppings'?

I suspect this is where the caterpillar emerged from.

A Citrus Butterfly lays a single egg on each leaf.

Now that you have seen the entire Lifecycle of a Citrus Butterfly backwards, what next?

A mother butterfly laying eggs?

I am not that fortunate yet.

Perhaps you could help to complete the cycle with that image.

Happy Birthday to me!

Millipedes

Early in the morning, when many are still asleep...

I find the millipedes very busy...

Very soon, there would be an addition of up to 300 to this family!!!

The name, millipede suggests that it has 1000 legs, 

In actual fact, none has more than 375 pairs.

Millipedes normally eat dead plant material. 

They occasionally graze on roots and shoots of seedlings.

Frog and lizards eat millipedes.

I normally leave them alone. 

Sometimes I transfer them to the compost pile.

Do they bother you?
I think I bothered them.