I like Butterflie :)) I don't know a lot about them but enjoy planting plants they like and taking their pictures. My nurse got this picture for me. Does anyone know it name please ?
Thanks, Allison
Does anyone know it name please ?
Another picture :))
WOW!!! What a gorgeous female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail!!! Lucky you living in Florida...you get to see these beauties. They don't make their way down to the south tip of Texas or to the western US.
~ Cat
Thank you ! So very much for your help. Allison
That is a nice one. I posted this pic a few months ago with the same question (on another site), and got the same answer.
This is my first year with a digital camera.
Andy P
Andy,
Ya'll are lucky...we don't get those beauties this far south...but alas, we still get about 300-350 others :o)
~ Cat
WOW I had never seen one before . Their all beautiful :)) Allison
Allison, nice picture but, what kind of plant is it nectaring on? They come in my yard to lay eggs but don't visit for nectar. I need something to get them to stay awhile. Your plant seem to do the trick.
Thanks,
Art
You have a female tiger swallowtail--lucky you.
Gardening for Wildlife Homescape Tour
Last Saturday my yard was one of eight on a county wide gardening for wildlife homescape tour. Had from 300-400 people here between 10 and 4:00 Talked the whole time. Mostly I pick plants for butterflies or birds and native plants or Florida Friendly. I have a 120X100 lot and was able to save the sides back and front corners from the bull-dozer when we built. Where the soil was not disturbed wonderful native plants emerged--along with a few invasive exotics. Anyway People called my place the Butterfly house and loved all the blooming plants--big hit in the morning was beach buttercup a mallow. It closes up in the afternoon but the Mexican flame vine and Mexican Sunflower along with all the red penta and the native prostrate porter weed were big hits.
I have identified 15 species of butterflies this month in my yard--but they have been scarcer than usual--However on Saturday they heard there was a party and came out in larger numbers and danced and partied and drank--didn't observe any hanky-panky though. After all children were present.
Well it was a great idea and very successfull educational tool.
Goodstory nice story ! Thanks for sharing. We grow the Mexican Daisy . I don't know a lot about butterfly's that their beautiful and when buying plants look for ones they may enjoy.
Art I'm not sure of the name what the butterfly is enjoying ? I will ask my Nurse she will know. Thanks, Allison
Oh Mexican Daisy
My Neighbor who owns Flroida Photo Magazine loved our flowers and was always taking Pictures. He printed up a lot of them we framed.
He also gave me a disk of like over 500 photo's of our flowers !
Artcon, the flower on Violets pic is a butterfly bush 'Buddleia' and on my pic it is the butterfly weed 'Asclipias tuberosa'.
The buddleia is a real magnet for feeding and the Asclepias is food for the caterpillars as well as the mature B'flies.
Andy P
Andy, thanks for identifying the plant for me. It didn't look like a Buddleia to me that's why I asked.
Art
Good, How can you tell the gender?
Andy P
Yes how can you tell the Gender ! Very interesting. Thanks, Allison
Size might be a clue to sex. When I was a kid I hatched a female cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia) on my bedroom curtain. The female is as big as they come. She flies little if any. I moved her to a rose bush. A male, small enough to fly, found her. Then she laid eggs.
Nice story Thanks !