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Thursday, May 11, 2017

T13 butterflies in the garden

Since this is Spring I thought it would be nice to list Thirteen Butterflies seen in our garden:

1. Tiny Sootywing butterfly

2. Citrus Dog, Orange Dogs, Giant Swallowtails.
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3. Mourning Cloak
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4. California Skipper

5. California Hairstreak

6. Western Swallowtail
Wikipedia

7. Monarch

8. Gulf Fritillary
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From Gene Hanson's lovely page.

9. Cloudless Sulfur


10. California Dogface

11. Cabbage White

12. Clouded Sulfur

13. Western Pygmy Blue  and also HERE

11 comments:

  1. All we get here is black and yellow swallowtail and an occasional fritillarry.

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    1. I explained in the next post why we get so many, Colleen. But you can do some planting that will attract them. Something to build with the grandkids? 🦋 It's good for the heart's ease. Hugs 😍

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  2. How beautiful. I have a couple of plants that are supposed to attract butterflies.

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    1. They will put you on their radar. Some of ours, the tiny sooties, are looking for the huge geranium patch we removed last fall, poor things.

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  3. These are lovely, although the person who named the California Dogface must be hit with wet noodles for coming up with that name. Sheesh.

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  4. Those are beautiful! I especially love the California Dogface and the Mourning Cloak. Lovely!

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  5. Glad you enjoyed all the lovelies. They move too fast for me to get decent snaps, but it's a comfort to know other people take fantastic shots.

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  6. Beautiful!!! Never heard of the dogface. Very cool!

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  7. An unfortunate name for a beautiful butterfly. It's a beauty!

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  8. Tiny sootwing, mourning cloak, california skipper, gulf fritillary, cloudless sulfur, cabbage white, and clouded sulfur are also native here.
    Our butterfly population has dropped severely the last 2-3 years. I do what I can with planting, even collection caterpillars and raising them before releasing, but it's a fight against windmills (or Monsanto).

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I’m going through some stuff but I will peek in now and then and will be back when it’s over..