Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 72, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
There's still plenty of milkweed at my house and the museum. In fact, I scooped up another dozen or so Monarch cats today. Oh, and someone found another Queen because there were two in the tank! We actually bought dozens of milkweed plants a few weeks ago and filled in a lot of empty patches. The aphids have found them too, but I'm working on that. And we've also had them using the Giant Milkweed so it's been Monarchs all around.

Lots of sulphurs, too! I found Cloudless and Orange-Barred today. All of them were found on the flowers. I finally started ignoring the leaves and just looked at the flowers. I think I found about eight all together.

Since it was cool and increasingly cloudy (unlike what the weatherman said) I actually got some nice shots of a couple skippers. How often do you see them slow down?

I won't pretend to know the IDs of the skippers; I can usually narrow it down to two or three, but then I end up arguing with myself.