Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for August 25, 2024

Wallace lets nothing bug him.

Indeed

Seagull in every frame. Aw, look how he’s leaning on Wallace in the third frame. ♥ Look at scary Sterling eyeing the butterfly!

And it’s STILL SUMMER !!

The foooooosshhh in the waves is perfect.

Awwwww…sniff.

Panel five counts as one Bizarro.

A monarch butterfly made its chrysalis on my oldest son’s bike (decades ago) and he decided not to ride his bike. In time, we saw the butterfly emerge and fly away.

Don’t Blink

Nice milkweed.

Well, they gotta learn to eat on their own . .

I’m a Monarch waystation, but this year, they’re saying don’t bring them in this year by us because there’s a pest that’s attacking them in chrysalis and when they emerge their wings are badly deformed. It’s very sad. The populations have decreased over the past few years as it is and they’re being considered for the endangered species list. Poor things. Go Wallace!!

I can’t tell if Sterling is sharing in the joy of the butterfly emerging in panel 5, or is looking at lunch.

Is Sterling in awe, too, or is he hungry for a snack..?

I like panel 2 with Wallace and the caterpillar having lunch together.

Butterfly is the sign for “recovery”!!!!

So so glad Sterling didn’t manage to EAT it first

Most years when we’d go to Door County, WI over Labor Day, on sunny days we’d seen hundreds of Monarchs flying south along the beach of Lake Michigan. We can’t go this year, but my sis-in-law says she’s seen no butterflies at all at the cottage, which is rare. And sad.

“I’m not crying, you’re crying (sniff)”

What a bittersweet moment for Wallace, now an empty cager.

Another beautiful one…

We have a large area of our lawn that I don’t mow that grows milkweed for the butterflies. I also mow the grass high, about 3 inches, in order to give insects and bugs some habitat.

Keep up the good work, Wallace!

To quote Opie and Andy Taylor:Opie: “Cage sure looks awful empty, don’t it Pa?”Andy: “Yes son, it sure does. But don’t the trees seem nice and full?”Opie the Birdman, The Andy Griffith Show Season 4 Episode 1

You were supposed to let that poor butterfly out in panel 5-well Sterling is there so panel6!!

Bye, “Willy”

I collected a bunch of caterpillars as a five year old and put them in a jar with leaves. One morning I woke up and had a living room full of monarch butterflies flittering around. Took the lid off the jar after they went into the cocoon stage.

So they grow up so fast; let em grow up quickly then to be the best folks they can be

Indeed, they do.

I’m surprised (and glad) that it wasn’t instantly eaten by a bird! Like a crow, or a seagul…

♥

This is so beautiful. I watched a Monarch flutter by today—a perfect reminder of the milkweed plants next door and the elderly neighbors who planted them for them. The husband passed away two years ago, the wife about two months ago, and I hope whoever buys their house keeps that little patch going.

I did this when I was younger. The monarch caterpillar was caught in the spring, went into its cocoon in early June, but it did not emerge until Halloween because my room was so cold. I felt so bad releasing it knowing it would probably freeze.

When I was a kid, we would collect the caterpillars off of the plants in the garden. I do not know what types they were, just that they made good bait.

A beautiful Sunday strip.