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Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES #103, 3 by mellielong

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mellielong wrote:
Went out to fungicide the orchids and had a few visitors. The usual Gulf Frits and Zebra Longwings are out there, of course. I also found some nearly full-grown Monarch cats munching away all my milkweed. I had to move one to a different plant so he'd have something to eat. But my real surprise was seeing a Pipevine Swallowtail (Pictures 1 and 2) and a Palamedes Swallowtail (Pictures 3 and 4)! I don't see the Palamedes very often, usually early in the spring and then not until the fall. You can tell a Palamedes because they have stripes on their body, not spots, plus they have a stripe on the underside of their wing that runs parallel to their body.

Melanie