Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily butterfly pictures #89, 1 by BCH521

BCH521 wrote:
From our yard, and from the soybean field down the road--I just purchased 200 tags from monarchwatch, so weve been getting busy--although these will eclose too soon to be tagged.

I have never had gay butterflies look like that picture--not even close

Great Spangled Fritillary--1st one I've seen in weeks--we have planted over 300 nectar plants, and this fritillary was fighting over 1 bloom w/ a TST--maybe that's why we have a shortage