Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily pictures #98, 1 by C_A_Ivy

C_A_Ivy wrote:
We've had cold nights and sunny windy days for about a week. The flowers are all gone except for marigolds, blanket flowers and pansies. Only a few butterflies each day. Most are basking or looking for flowers.Here's some from this week.

1. Phaon crescent
2. Horace's duskywing skipper
3. Little yellow
4. Common checkered skipper
5. Common buckeye

Others observed, were the usual Gulf frits, sulphurs, and mating variegated frits.
I have a Carolina praying mantis in the marigolds that catches any slow BF or bee for food. I'm surprized at the number of insects here for this time of year.

This message was edited Dec 6, 2012 8:25 PM