Escapee has been found!

[applestar]

About a week ago, to our surprise (we thought we were all done with cats) we found a late 4th* or an early 5th* cat on my single 2 stalk swamp milkweed plant, which fortunately was going strong. So we brought it inside and named it Swampy.

Swampy grew quite a bit (that's why I'm even considering that it might've still been a 4th*), then we had a hot sunny day, I wanted to give it a bit more vent, and accidentally left a wide enough gap for it to escape!

I kept on a lookout for Swampy, of course, but it wasn't until yesterday morning that I found it... hanging as a chrysalis on the wooden pole curtain rod!! I'm SOOO relieved we didn't have a cloudy or rainy day while Swampy was missing because I would've flung those big wooden ring hung drapes wide open! I'll spray Swampy off of there tomorrow and pin it up in the eclosing cage.

[Mona Miller]

I think all of us have had an escapee at one time or another. Once I had one crawl up and make a chrysalis on the handle of my coffee maker. I had to wait until it hardened before I could take it off. We missed our morning coffee for a day.