Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 35, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
Besides planting, our job was to watch out for these guys! This one was small (maybe 5 feet) and only came over after we were all done and sitting there eating lunch. I guess he wanted to check out all the changes we had made. The White Peacocks were already enjoying perching on the new plants. We planted iris, sawgrass, spike rush, canna lillies, and pickerelweed. It should be beautiful next year about this time.

In other news, I picked two eggs off the passion vine when I was hiking last weekend. At first I thought they were Gulf Frit eggs, but they look like they're starting to change color so I think I may have Zebra Longwings! I'll keep you posted as they grow. Meanwhile, the Zebra STs and the Gulf Frits and one confirmed Zebra LW are still munching away.

Funny story, so far this spring the Zebra STs haven't been bad at all with their final gut purge. Some of them I can't even tell. I was wondering if it was a seasonal thing like how they are a little smaller in the spring. Well, when I took them to work I had my first really messy gut purge (of course). I always have tissues on my desk (allergies) so I cleaned up after the little guy but he wasn't quite finished so I had to repeat a few times. I was looking at the tissues in my trash and thinking, "What are the cleaning people going to think I've been doing?" It looked pretty bad!

Melanie