Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Never saw one of these before, 1 by burg1111

burg1111 wrote:
My son and I were fishing on our lake in the backyard (drain pond I should say) and saw one of these guys flitting around on the waters edge. I have only seen them at Butterfly World, never in the wild. We got very excited! He/she never made it to the BF garden, but I can only hope it will come back for a visit. Very prettty! I have seen it called "red postman" and "dizzy butterfly". I looked it up and it is a Heliconius erato. Apparently passionflower is its host plant, so maybe I'll get some future cats on my passionflower. That would be very exciting. Just wanted to share since I have been down here 20 years and never saw one outside of captivity. This picture is one I took at Butterfly World in Coconut Creek. (We are going again today, YEAH).