A most interesting courtship is transpiring around the fields of Florida as the Gulf Fritillaries emerge from their cocoon's. In the heat of day, the female emerges, to hold onto the stem or cocoon, drying out. After about thirty minutes to an hour, a male fritillary flutters up and connects with the newly emerged female, to mate. It must be quite the ordeal for the female, the first sight of blue summer sky, the wings still unable to fly, and here comes her suitor, as she is helpless to escape should she want to. But, it is in her created manner to emerge and repeat within her the cycle that shall bring the butterflies again and again to brighten the meadow.
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