Your pictures of the beebalm and butterfly are so pretty!
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Thank you to both of you : ) I'm glad you like them.
No idea who this is.
and my first cat of the season.
Mrs_Ed, your mystery bf is so pretty!
Mrs. E. that is a pretty butterfly and caterpillar. hmmm ?
Is he/she on fennel or dill?
yes!! it's one of those that looks like a leaf when it closes. That's probably some class or something right? I'm new to BFs.
that's dill the cat is. I'm thinking black swallowtail, first or early instar…?
This is the reason I asked. Wasn't sure about this plant. I thought it was fernleaf dill. Then I started seeing pictures of fennel, so I wasn't sure. Think I got seeds from Deb in Texas.
oh, well this is dill, i have tons of it. I also have a bronze fennel plant and I check that daily too. Plus Rue, milkweed, butterfly weed and parsley.
The butterfly was at my sister's house and wasn't landing on any flowers that I could see.
Okay, I'm guessing "Gray Comma"
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1762
I think you found him/her.
Mrs. Ed, that is a Black Swallowtail caterpillar on your dill. Also I am in agreement with the Comma. I have a relative of his in our area the Question Mark. LOL! See the white question mark on the wing? Your Comma should have just the comma no period. These guys are the Bushfooted family and come to the "butterfly brew" really well.
oh yah!
Here it is, a bit blurry after I blew it up.
Oh, I'd like to have that one around. It looks so cool! Well, I had no more cats to raise lately, so today I found just a few eggs. So...maybe they didn't all leave without mating like I was thinking!
Here is a Julia, who showed up in my yard today.
Mrs_Ed - congrats on the Comma - we don't get that one this far south :o)
Woohoo...way to go Snuzer!!! Love that Julia!!! Do hope it makes use of passion vine if you have some planted in your yard.
~ Cat
Nice! I haven't seen a Julia in my yard.
I have about 5 passion vines (1 lady lavender, 1 running pop, 2 suberosa, 1 maypop) and they are all trying to grow new leaves, as the GF cats have devoured all the leaves. I will have to splurge and buy a well- developed pvine or just wait it out! I see lots of GF butterflies in my yard now, most likely because of all the munching cats I have had over the past 2 months. I see some zebra LW now & then, too. A place to lay eggs? Probably not right now--with no leaves.
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Julia sure is pretty. Haven't seen one either, yet.
Here is my Spicbush again. so beautiful. I still haven't seen the caterpillars. Now, that I think about it. Do they eat tomato bushes? Saw some missing leaves on one today.
LOL do they eat tomato bushes?LOL I sure hope not! Sounds like you got rabbits. LOL
Such a large butterfly on such a small blossom. A balancing act!
I proudly present my sulphur, lol. I'm so happy to see this baby, though the pic. isn't too clear. Still saw the redspotted purple darting about, but couldn't catch up for a pix. And I saw a pair of silverspotted skippers.
hmmmm, that rabbit would have to be a 'Harvey' The bush is in a big pot and it was about 6 feet up on the bush. LOL
cute sulphur, Lilylove
Any body got a picture of a sulfur cat? I have tiny green cats on my Senna alata. Just wondering what they are.
Hey Debra, I've a pix of them somewhere...they were on my Senna Alata...they are cute, plain green, but cute.
Kim
Debra,
I've found a very nice picture from Debnes' posting...hope she doesn't mind I share this with you.
Here it's.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4600450
That's the one! Now where do they go to pupate? My little tree is surrounded by a grassy yard. He'd have to walk a long way to find another tree or bush. Probably 20 feet or more.
Milly, help us out here....I'm stuck. Debra, if you go to Debnes' thread. Maybe you can find some more info. there? BTW, I haven't seen Deb's posting lately...
Melanie says she's been busy but she does pop in every now and then.
I met with Debnes today over at Josephine's house, she is doing fine. Just has a lot going with Ben out of school for the summer. She also said she hasn't had many bfs to write about! But not many of us have.
I did release 10 more BSTs today and one of those I had left on my new patch of parsley eclosed today too. I found it's empty chrysalis. So if you added that one in, 11 left my place today. That makes about 32 for a two week total so far. I have about 6 that look like they are due tomorrow. But then we are back to three on the caterpillars I am feeding. I brought in 3 little first instar cats yesterday; so it is feast or famine here.
My RSP butterfly eclosed this morning. After I let it go it hung around on my Redbud Tree for a while, so I took pics. ! If I were an artist I'd want to do a painting of this BF!
Elaine, maybe you have the Sphinx Moth cats on your tomato plant? They make VERY quick work of chewing the leaves (on brugs and dats too). I've had a lot of small ones, they're difficult to see they blend in so well; even when they're huge and fat they blend in well and you find them by surprise!
yep, look at how this one is the same color of the branch.
I plant Borage with my tomatoes to repel this worm/moth.
http://insects.tamu.edu/images/insects/color/thorn1.jpg
G.F.? Saw this 'lil one fluttering by my passion vines...not sure it was depositing eggs (on my passi) or not? I hope so.
Last year I've raised some G.F. and released them. I remember the ventral wings has 'silvery' marking pattern, but this one is difference. A different kind of G.F.?
I am pretty sure that is a variegated fritillary. It may deposit some eggs on the passion vine. I have never seen one of those in my yard, but it's in my butterfly book.
Linda- I love the RSP photo. Your picture is so pretty. I have never seen a real one-- only photos.
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Here is my butterfly of the day-- I guess it's some kind of skipper-- I get them quite often, but managed to get some pictures this time. This photo was taken last evening.
Thank you, snuzer29. Wooohooo, I'm learning, I've two different kinds of G.F. I've seen RSP here in my zone as well, one of the prettietest, most collorful butterfly. Hmmm, I'm going to need to read up on borage....
Kim
This one was taken this afternoon. I'm guessing it's the same butterfly.
