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...

 A coupla black widow spiders... I spotted the top one while picking watermelon, the bottom one is nesting among the potted plants...

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.

 You don't get butterflies without caterpillars, but what's this guy doing on a blackberry bush?
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