Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES #101, 3 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
The Duskywing managed to find the one Spanish Needle my Dad didn't pull. Then, a Giant ST came by to nectar on the pentas and while it was there it found my rue and laid some eggs!!! Of course, what I didn't realize was that the Black ST had already laid eggs on the rue. In the third picture you can see both types of eggs on the plant. Black STs lay cream-colored eggs while the Giant ST has an orange colored egg. I look forward to raising both!

I also saw the hummingbird hit up my flowering maple (Abutilon spp.) not once, but twice! It was too fast for a picture, though. I love how it ignores my feeders and just goes for the plants. I guess they taste better than that artificial stuff, LOL! The last picture shows the coreopsis and echinacea I bought today. The Giant Milkweed is in the right side of the photo, too.

Melanie