Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Butterflies page 4, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Adrienne!
What a lovely Juvenal's Duskywing at that!! Great contrast with the orchid colored bloom. I think it is a female, bc the males are more blackish in color. Thier larval host is Oak.

We're having rain, rain, and then more rain this week.. So not as much of me going out in the garden as on all sunny days. Just when I was thinking how slowed down the butterfly activity would be, in comes GST! And a TST too... They went around and round and the GST comes back to actually nectar a few of the flowers.

At first he glided over all the plants, and would leave. Then he would sail through again gliding over every section, not lighting on much of anything at all. He would always come back around and repeat.... This went on several times until he actually began landing on flowers and drinking. I figured out that he was doing security run to see if any preditors were going to pop out and make a surprise meal of him. Once he was comfortable, even making several passes by me, he settled on Cosmos and Zinnias.
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