Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES # 110, 5 by C_A_Ivy

C_A_Ivy wrote:
Busy last couple of days. Two more BST's eclosed yesterday but today was a surprise, three monarchs emerged early this morning. They dried their wings and disappeared. Nine viable chrysalis still getting ready.
Later I noticed a small dark butterfly in the BST pillar house. Another surprise, a Red Spotted Purple. I had placed a chrysalis, found on river oat stem, there two days ago. Thinking it might be a roadside skipper.
Also today,I noticed a large Cloudless Sulphur busy laying eggs on the Coffee Weed in the backyard then a Question Mark darting from plant to plant oviposting at random. Should be lots of flying flowers in the yard this fall and next spring.


Pic 3 shows monarch no.3 emerging.