I thought we were going to have a front row seat for metamorphosis; I found a caterpillar crawling up a stem of our Gregg’s Mist flowers. These plants are in the front flower bed and we pass them daily.

I’m not sure if the location was bad, or the insect genetics didn’t read right, or if something knocked off the forming chrysalis, but it fell off the stem before the shell hardened. Bummer.