Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily pictures #98, 3 by C_A_Ivy

C_A_Ivy wrote:
Yakmon, what a nice pic of a Queen. Looks like she was nectaring and sunning. All those spots give her a 3D effect. The Gulfs consumed all the leaves from my eight foot passion vine in August. I moved some cats to another plant but I assume many died from lack of food.
The cold weather here,west central AR, has wiped out the annual flowers except for a few marigolds and pansies. Only a few butterflies and some are really beaten up. I saw GFs, variegated frits, Sachem and Clouded skippers, and a poor worn out buckeye this afternoon either sunning or nectaring marigolds.