Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 44, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Criminy!!! I drive to the ranch for the day and come back to almost 60 new posts!!! Aye....it's hard to keep up at my age :o)

LUCY --- congrats on the Polys! Now send some out here!!! I have a huge aristolochia I planted just for them. So far no takers and the I've had to trim back the vine as it likes to climb up the telephone pole on the other side of my backyard fence :o) Wish the Polys were as abundant as the Pipevines. Those buggers number into the hundreds.

MEL --- that skiper in Post #5487215 look like a Southern Broken Dash (Wallengrenia otho) to me. I usually associate that skipper with the "3" design on the underside of the hingwing. Let me know what you think.

Great photos everyone. Welcome aboard VELNITA :o)

Okay...now to catch up with today's photos from the ranch too...the milkweed vines were blooming and there were skads of butterflies. Must've been at least 100 Fatal Metalmarks on them as the milkweed vine I was checking out was intertwined with clematis drummondi (it's larval host).

Here's a photo of a six Fatal Metalmarks on one bloom. So just imagine about the same amount on the other blossoms :o) I have yet to look for eggs or caterpillars - do want to raise those but just never make the time and the c. drummondi vines are all over the ranch.

~ Cat

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