Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 59, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Went to our monthly butterfly meeting today at the National Butterfly Center (formerly known as NABA Park). There were lots of Crimson Patch cats on the Flame Acanthus there. We even found a cat on one of the picnic tables which is a good twenty five feet away from the closest larval host plant. Wonder how much that is in caterpillar miles :o)

Saw several Cyna Blues flitting around the Snaker Herb...and even photographed a mating pair. We had several new members and they were all excited to see those teeny butterflies mating so I let them have their day taking photos.

A Band Celled Sister was way up in the anacua tree (Texas Sugarberry), a couple of Mexican Bluewings near the woods.

The park set up a bird feeding station so several of us sat at the picnic/viewing tables to watch them feed. A couple of Altamira Orioles, lots of wood peckers, Green Jays, Thrashers, wrens, cardinals and warblers were enjoying the peanut butter station and they'd also fly in to eat grapes.

They set up a game cam last night because the feeders were knocked down each day and all the feed was gone. Turns out there were several racoons doing the damage. They'd rigged up some racoon obstacle course but it still managed to get to the feeders. We all sat around brainstorming. Will have to see if the ideas we tossed around will work. They were also excited to see a coyote on the game cam. That brave bugger came right on in to the park to check out the feeders - it probably smelled the cat food in the racoon trap :o)

Here's the mating Cyna Blues.

~ Cat