island cassie

After our recent heavy rain lasting days - I have never seen so many really big butterflies snacking on papaya peel in the compost heap. With wings spread these chaps must be almost 5 inches across - but so hard to catch on camera. There were also some chocolate and lime green chaps that didn't stay, and several sizes of black and yellow striped, as well as the pale yellow ones and the ones like slices of mango! I don't mind holes in leaves (as long as it is not something special) if it means that these beauties are around - big exotic caterpillars usually means something special in the way of moths or butterflies and they are welcome here. The neighbours (mostly north american sadly) spray house and garden against everything (hence the death of my original bananas) and can't understand why I won't allow it.