Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 73, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
I had a sulphur come out during the coldest days and he ultimately didn't make it. I did get some good educational photos so his life wasn't in vain.

We do have cold days here in Tampa but what made this so unusual was that we had so many consecutive days of cold weather. The county opened its freeze shelters (for homeless or people who don't have or can't afford heat) and the lady on the news was saying that usually the most days in a row they are open in three. This was the sixth day in a row they had been open and they were running out of supplies.

The butterflies at the museum have a heat lamp in the flight cage, but they were still very sluggish. I made sure none of them were on the ground where they might be stepped on. I just tucked them into the plants and told them to hang in there. All of our tilapia died in the wetland display and I buried five of them. They are non-native so I can't feel too bad, but I read in the paper that there were all kinds of fish washing ashore in the Gulf. The snook were hit especially hard.

Here's my pretty Cloudless Sulphur.