Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Mystery small butterfly posing on Cilantro, 1 by edfinney

edfinney wrote:
Your unidentified "butterfly" is the White-Tipped Black moth, Melanchroia chephise, a day-flying moth whose larvae have infested my Jacob's Coat (a.k.a. Snow On The Mountain) to the point that every leaf has been devoured.
As far as I know, the cats don't eat anything else so unless you have Jacob's Coat or Snow On The Mountain, you are safe. I had to cut mine back to the ground. I was left with bare sticks and literally hundreds of starving cats. I am entering a small pic of one of the moths nectaring on a small Fiddlewood tree (bush).