danger and butterflies
2 green lynx spiders and a bumble bee, bad day to be a pollinator.
They're not helping the watermelon vine much either...
And... this guy.
I was walking to the house from the garden, and heard a cicada... only...
the buzzing didn't change tones... just didn't sound quite right...
looked around, saw that the cats had this guy surrounded!
I gathered up cats, tossed them in the house and shut the door...
gave this big guy time to get out of dodge.
Had a heck of a butterfly hatch, they're crawling over everything!
If I stood back and shot the entire lantana bush, I could probably get 20 or 30 in the pic... unfortunately, they'd be difficult to spot without enlarging and getting a magnifying glass.
I watched this gulf fritillary lay an egg on the passionflower vine and then make a fuel stop at the flower... wonder what the passiflora thought.
Should be on a cassia...
Buckeye caterpillar on agalinis.
Buckeye visiting eupatorium hyssopifolium.
Armyworms eating amaranth
gulf fritillary visits cucumber vine.
Checkered frit visits dune sunflower
posted by Gardens-In-The-Sand at
2:57 PM
2 Comments:
Wow, what a wonderful place to be - your place is full of life! It has been a pretty good year for butterflies, I agree.
Thanks!
The secret is to leave the natural areas alone.... Too many people mow or worse, spread herbicide in a pointless exercise trying to keep everything "tidy" and then act surprised when they don't see any butterflies in their flower garden....
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