Spring Is Here and Dill Would Never Grow Up

Spring is here! It's time to wear short sleeves and skirts while bathing in the sun!
Daffodils and tulips are budding their young leaves off the soil.

I have a sad news. Just two days ago when I opened the window, I found Dill the pupa was empty. There was a round hole on the pupa and Dill was gone. I supposed it could be some kind of parastiod wasp consuming Dill even before I adopted it and emerging out. I felt kind of sad that I'd never see Dill as a butterfly and threw the empty pupa away.

Dill Grew Up

I was so worried that I would run out of dill and Dill would be starving. I knew butterflies in this genus eat plants of the family Apiaceae, but I wasn't sure if Dill would accept if I suddenly switched its diet. It turned out that it seemed to like parsley even more, and got fatter each day. I was so happy!

Dill

I found out that the herb I put into my saute dish and rice was dill. There were a lot of farmers selling dills at the Farmers' Market.

I found a caterpillar on the dill. Because the idea of boiling it and making it into a specimen made me cry, so I decided to keep it.

My classmate told me it's a black swallowtail. Well, I'll have to keep it outside when it turns into a pupa so it can emerge successfully in the spring. That's what butterflies in cold places do.

Should I call it Dill? It apparently eats dill. lol
Good taste. This genus of butterflies only eat those aromatic plants.