Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily pictures #100!, 4 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
Saw lots of butterflies today but didn't get too many pictures. One of my tanks of Monarchs got poisoned, I think. I was feeding the bigger ones only the Giant Milkweed I bought not too long ago and they all started leaking fluid and their intestines were coming out their anus. Not pretty. Luckily, my other two tanks are doing fine.

In photos today I have a Cassius Blue, one of those little skippers (maybe a Whirlabout?), a Gulf Frit that was flying around my passiflora, a look at my Monarchs in the Critter Keeper, and a Monarch that has a yellow and black tubercle. I'd never seen one that wasn't all black. I guess he's a mutation.

Also saw a Buckeye, a Cloudless Sulphur, Zebra Longwing, and a Checkered White (which rarely come to my garden so it was very odd to see one).

Melanie