After a week without sunshine, it blazed all day! A Carolina wren picked through the stale barkbutter balls. I found a monarch chrysalis in the mountain mint. The black swallowtail chrysalis was unchanged. The two Argiope spiders were prospering. A cloud of no-see-ums entangled with the rosebush web. The Berkely's polypore was buried in tree debris.
At last the air was warm enough for me to consider swimming. This was fortunate for two young skinks, a wheel bug and a leaf-footed bug, something that looked like a small Mayfly, a lacewing, a bumblebee, several crickets, a mama spider with a load of spiderlings, some things I couldn't identify, and a brown furry lump that I think was a
puss caterpillar. I was extremely careful with that one. One of the skinks took a close look at the leaf-footed bug, then left it alone. Later I saw a wasp hunting around the area where the caterpillar had been floating. I wonder if the wasp had captured and dropped it.
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