Butterfly

I caught some caterpillars while my niece was here so she could see them grow into butterflies.  One of them emerged a few days ago (here's a pic of it on my ceiling).  It was cold, dark and rainy outside so I thought I'd wait until the next morning to let it go.  But the next morning it was gone!  Looked everywhere and didn't see it for days.  I figured I would find a dead butterfly in one of my socks one day or something.  

It came out of hiding today!  It was behind the pot for my biggest orchid plant when I found it, trying to get out of my window.  Hopefully it will be happy in Berkeley, the land of wild anise.  This is where they lay their eggs and what they eat as caterpillars...don't know about the butterflies.