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Holy Crustacean

Adam Hurt

I love crabs. These are the fixings for the summer sacrament, Holy Crustacean -- an essential rite...

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Uploaded on Jul 12, 2009

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Flea Market at the Wheaton Ice Rink

It's a chrysalis

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Uploaded on Jul 12, 2009

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Both our caterpillars metamorphosed into chrysalises on Wednesday. Here's the play by play from...

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Uploaded on Jul 9, 2009

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Stevie Coyle

Stevie Coyle

At a house concert in Takoma Park, Stevie Coyle sang great songs (some of his own making) and picked...

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Uploaded on Jul 8, 2009

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Tex...or is this Slim?

Slim...or is this Tex?

The Milkweed Cowboys have gotten so big that I can't tell them apart any more. Tex was...

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Uploaded on Jul 7, 2009

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More!

They're huge!

I left them overnight with a big sprig of milkweed. This is what I found at 6:00 a.m. ...

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Uploaded on Jul 6, 2009

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We went away for 24 hours, and they had eaten most of the milkweed, and doubled in size!

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Uploaded on Jul 5, 2009

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Horned beetles

The Milkweed Cowboys

While looking for some milkweed for the monarch caterpillars I am raising, I came across this couple...

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Uploaded on Jul 3, 2009  |  Map

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That's Tex on the left, and Slim on the right. I just put out a couple of fresh swamp...

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Uploaded on Jul 2, 2009

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A couple of frassholes

New habitat

The caterpillars are doing fine, just munching away at the milkweed and excreting their frass. They...

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Uploaded on Jun 30, 2009

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I moved the caterpillars to a better habitat. They're still in the same box made for a hermit crab....

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Uploaded on Jun 28, 2009

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New home

Now there are two

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Uploaded on Jun 28, 2009

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I was checking out my milkweed plants, and found another little muncher. I brought him inside, so...

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Uploaded on Jun 27, 2009

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Paik Produce at Eastern Market

Eastern Market

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Uploaded on Jun 26, 2009

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Uploaded on Jun 26, 2009

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