Camera Critters #5 Bella

My friends from far away have a new puppy and sent this photo. Wish I could pet her. 

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Camera Critters #4 Cluck Cluck, Woof!

My daughter tends to her neighbor's poultry when needed. She is very good with all animals and they love her back. 

Even Lexi, who is being a naughty girl and looking at her Santa gifts before she should!

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Camera Critters #3

Hundreds and hundreds of these were eating the leaves, no, I should say gobbling the leaves, on a passion flower vine. I took this photo in a campground and I noticed them when I went back a second time after taking a photograph of the flower a few days earlier.  

I kept it in a jar, feeding it more leaves I plucked from the vine almost daily for over a week. Finally, I had to release it because we were leaving to return home. 

I have now learned that it is a larvae of the fritillary butterfly.  The passion flower vine is one of several possible host plants for the fritillary butterflies. 

Here is a picture (not taken by me) of this beautiful butterfly.

Here is a photograph I took, not knowing what kind of butterfly it was. There were thousands flying over the ocean beaches!  Eureka!

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