Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Duranta bush butterfly photos, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Lily,

Excellent photos! Love that long-tailed skipper photo - the turquoise on it really stands out. You might want to look up urbanus evona photos and compare your butterfly - the proteus and evona are extremely similar - I believe the last check spot is supposed to be pentagonal on the evona. I find it hard to tell them apart.

You have photographed some gorgeous swallowtails and that little bitty hairstreak too! Excellent!!!

I have several butterfly bushes, two lavender, two white and one wild lindleyanna that blooms a bluish purple - I rarely see butterflies on them :o(

Then again, could be because they are all frequenting the duranta bushes and the firebush (hamelia patens) hedges.

The NABA representative that has been fostering the marius hairstreak cats came by this morning to release butterfly #1 that emerged yesterday. It stayed on my duranta bush for about 20 minutes before it flew off. Still got four more to go :o)

~ Cat

This female marius hairstreak decided to nectar from the highest branch - I never could get a good photo of it...and another butterfly kept getting into the picture :o)

This message was edited Sep 27, 2005 11:25 PM