Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES # 109, 1 by scarletbean

scarletbean wrote:
BCH, jeez! what a lovely line up! You are becoming a monarch factory!
Vitrsna, that is such a pretty butterfly, is it as large as it looks in the pic? I figured about the size of a tigerstripe ST.

I am still in love with my baby monarch caterpillars. I have had another visit from a male monarch, and I found new eggs so I must have missed another female. I looked at my pictures from last year and realized that it WAS late in the summer when monarchs came. They seem to coincide with my MW getting covered with yellow aphids. Now that the joe pye weed is in full glory, I have several bfs throughout the day, tigerstripe STs, pipevine sts, red spotted purples,monarchs and skippers galore! joe pye beats out even the buddleia for BF action!
The pipevine I got recently is still alive, although I feared it was a goner for a month. It dropped the few leaves it had and just looked altogether sad. Earlier this week I saw a new leaf and this morning another leaf. I MUST make decisions on where to put some new additions : spicebush and pawpaw tree. I have left them potted for too long now and they need to get going in the ground and get situated before winter.
My camera is truly DEAD! I would be sad except that this is an opportunity to get a new one!
I have learned so much here on DG that I can make decisions about features i never would have known. Thanks all!
Old pics, but wishing for a repeat of the first one. :