Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Butterflies Page 5, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Hey Sheila!
Your doing great with the frits, congrats on the new one.. You will prpbably find some empty chrysalids all over your garden. ... Oh, and on the 'brew'... Many, but not all brushfoots like the brew. For instance Gulf Frits are brushfoot, and they prefer to nectar flowers. When you read a species whose adult food is rotting fruit and dung, "fruit feasters", those are the ones who depend on food like our brew.

Amazing pics everybody!! I have been out a couple days working on the deck and gazebo.. It is finally finished. We still need to go pick out furniture, and quite a bit of straightening up. My SIL went back to Houston yesterday and took my grandson, (his son) with him for the summer, :-). We had a housefull here.

In the last few days we released a few GFrits, and a few Black STs. The Orange Dogs are getting bigger..about 1" long now, and the GST came back a few times since and oviposited even more. I am very excited (psyched even), about the numbers of Giant ST's. I see many have been snatched away, but she is steadily laying eggs. The Zanthoxylum Josephine gave me is over in the corner under the Privet, and it seems like a safer spot so far. There are 3 of them on the plant. I have 2 in containers like these in second instar now.