Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 24, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
WOW Rod!!! Great dorsal shot of that Orange-Barred Sulphur!!!

Okay Lucy...am convinced...I need to start growing a Senna or two!!!

SVP -- awesome Polydamas cats!!! I keep waiting for one of those butterflies to make use of my aristolochia elegans or aristolochia fimbriata. No takers yet.

Pford...do you have pepperweed growing around? The Checkered Whites out here use that as a larval host...it grows wild in Spring...and they lay gobs and gobs of eggs on it. Zinnias are good for attracting butterflies...they work wonders out here too.

Mellie...those little stinkhorns come in handy. Whenever I'm checking the citrus for Giant Swallowtails or Ornythion Swallowtails I brush my hands over the leaves and branches and wait to see if what I disturbed will cause a caterpillar to emit that odor. Helps me pinpoint where they are at :o)

Got lucky and watched a Zebra Heliconian ovipositing today :o)

~ Cat