You need to just move to somewhere like at the base of Mt Rainier. There's a winter poster, I can't remember his name, he used to be despondent over the lack of snow but I think he reformed himself and is better now. He might have tips.
It's madness here. Thanking the maker for this cooler weather because I'm changing bags daily. Four have pupated and should have more doing so daily which will ease the pressure.
20yrs ago it seemed like we were good for at least a couple good ole cold noreasters every winter, even if they were mostly rain. Feels like it's been a while since we've had a good one.
That thing eclosed pretty quickly, probably the warm weather sped up development. I've got about fifty L5 regalis caterpillars and they are devastating all my sweetgum, I'm so ready for them to pupate...next week.
It sort of looks like it was in the process of updating when you took the picture. The back half of it looks like a variegated fritillary caterpillar. If the chrysalid turned more whitish then thar would make sense.
You could just take it and put it in a container to allow it to eclose, it should be relatively quick - they overwinter as small caterpillars.
Looks like the newly formed chrysalis of a fritillary to me - possibly a variegated fritillary? Hard to say 100% for sure though. If you have violets in the area this would lead toward a fritillary.
On their map the entire US is going to be covered in snow and storms for winter except for the SW. It's sure to verify. Remember I already called for snows east of 95, looks like they're on to the same intel I've been reading.
I thought shit was about to go down but radar looks less impressive. Maybe it's like a hurricane eyewall and the storm line is just regenerating in time before it gets here.
Serious thunder to the east of us out in the Bay. I'm getting a lot of low clouds coming from the east, at least it's cooling things down but I don't see getting any rain out of it here.