Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Pictures #94, 1 by sunkissed

sunkissed wrote:
Wow....just love all the butterfly shots. Mellie you have been busy taking great photos. Lily I like the moth, very striking indeed. Yakmon great close up of that egg. jmorth as always you pics make my eyes pop!

I should be taking photos, I sit and just watch all the butterflies and think I need to go inside and get my camera, but I just sit and watch instead. On Saturday April 7th I saw my first hummer of the season, one of my friends that is a gardener was here and we both just giggled like little girls with excitement. I've now seen a hummer every evening at about sunset. This morning I saw one at sunrise.

I haven't seen anything bother my Gulf frit cats or my sulphur cats. But the wasp are back, so keeping an eye on things. I see Monarchs flying all day long but they don't seem to by laying eggs right now, and I haven't had any Monarch cats for well over a couple weeks now. In fact all my milkweed has grown back nicely and even blooming. Getting ready for the next batch. I'm sure I've had at least thirty monarch cats so far this year. I could find some in the Chrysalis stage, but most I think go into a near by Podocarpus hedge and I can't find them, I notice they love to hang around that hedge.after they are butterflies.

I did get one photo of a sulphur chrysalis on my scheffelara plant. I think this is an orange barred sulphur. Taken April 12th.

I'm just glad everyone is enjoying butterflies, moths and caterpillars again. Keep the photos coming, I'll try and work on mine.