I hope I see a Mourning Cloak soon:


At least twice when I was a kid, I collected as many larvae as I could find; at one time I had at least five caterpillars that grew to adults. I'd feed them Aspen leaves and watch them grow until they formed a chrysalis:




I would expect them to be around during early spring. They were always a sign that school was nearing an end, and the days of summer were an arm's length away.