Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Here are 2 butterflies I saaw this morning, 1 by salvia_lover

salvia_lover wrote:
Here's another pretty butterfly I saw today. Unfortunately, this one had a less than happy story. Apparently the wind blew him/her right onto a thorn bush and impaled him/her enough that s/he couldn't get free. Who knows how long the butterfly was hanging there....and therefore without a way to eat. I gently detached the butterfly from the thorn and set it down on the ledge of the raised bed to take a pic. The thorn in the pic is from the same bush that the butterfly got impaled on. The butterfly couldn't fly away and fluttered about pitifully on the ground. I picked it up gently again and placed it on a a flower head that I know those butterflies like to eat at. Hopefully s/he was just hungry and recovered after it was able to get some nectar.