Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES # 111, 4 by C_A_Ivy

C_A_Ivy wrote:
Nuts, hope you are feeling better. Stay warm, it's getting colder down here too. Only a few hours of sunshine but when it shinning lots of skippers and a few late season butterflies. While planting the season ending mums today I noted a winter form, gray Gulf Fritillary caterpillar on the passion vine. Then the butterflies started drawing my attention away from dirt digging. A queen flew overhead, first this year, landed briefly and headed southward. Also I saw Variegated frit, Buckeye, and Gulf Frit on the pineapple sage. The marigolds are getting bees, flies, and butterfly activity. No frost yet so nature is extending autumn conditions here.