Butterfly and Wildlife Gardening And Photography In Houston Texas
.jpg)
Category Archives: Cloudless Sulphur We’re in the dog days of summer where temperatures are in the upper 90′s and the heat index is around 104-108 degrees. It’s also the time that whenever I take my lens outside I can expect a bit of a wait before I can start shooting due to the condensation on the lens. Presently we…  UPDATE: Nancy Greig, Ph.D., Curator of Entomology at the Cockrell Butterfly Center confirmed that the Butterfly is indeed an Orange Barred Sulphur! Let me start this post by saying I can’t figure out what type of Sulphur Butterfly this is. I’ve sent out some emails for clarification, but if anyone can help me I would… I know I’ve been posting lots of bird pictures, but the Butterfly pictures are coming as well. We have lots of little Monarch Caterpillars right now from the single female that we saw a couple of weeks ago. We also have lots of little Caterpillars from the Eastern Black Swallowtail. I simply ran out of…  We still had quite a few Butterflies today, but a few less Monarchs than yesterday. The Butterflies that were really abundant today were the Gulf Fritillaries. The Mexican Milkweed appeared to be a popular gathering place for both the Monarchs and the Fritillaries. Sometimes the Fritillaries and Monarchs would share the Milkweed, other times they…  This is a first for us. We’ve had this Cloudless Sulphur Chrsyalis for a few weeks now. On Thursday (Thanksgiving) I noticed that the Chrsyalis had turned a bright yellow, and you could see the stripes of the soon to emerge Butterfly. What I didn’t expect is that the Butterfly would emerge in the late…  After the dreary, rainy day we had yesterday, it was a welcome sight to have nothing but sunshine and blue skies today. The beautiful weather also brought out all the Butterflies. It also brought out the “territorialness” in all the male Butterflies. Probably the most aggressive was this male Monarch pictured below. He would rest…  Since they Cassia tree is really starting to bloom with bright yellow flowers, it seems to be attracting more of the Cloudless Sulphurs. I have always struggled to get a decent picture of these Butterflies as their light color combined with their erratic flight makes it challenging. Another thing I noticed, at least today, is… WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST FOR AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT I really feel dumb. Every post I did on the Sulphur Butterflies we have in our backyard I have called them “Clouded” Sulphurs, not “Cloudless” Sulphurs. In the future, if anyone notices I post something that isn’t true or I’m being a knucklehead, please correct me. I…  Okay, I’m a knucklehead. I’ve been saying Clouded Sulphur when I should have been saying Cloudless Sulphur. No wonder I couldn’t find anything when I searched Google. I’ll fix all my posts. Sorry if I mislead anyone. A few days ago I wrote a post about this yellow Caterpillar that I had seen on our…  While I was out hunting for Butterfly Caterpillars I came across this thing. It was on our Cassia tree. This is the plant that the Sulphur Butterflies host on. Normally we just have Cloudless Sulphur Butterflies laying eggs on this plant, and rarely do the Caterpillars make it to the Chrysalis stage because this plant…  Active day in the backyard as the sun finally decided to make an appearance. We went most of the Summer with very little rain, then the past week it’s rained almost every day. The poor Butterflies were probably just “sheltering in place.” Since the sun was out, and things began to warm up, it also…  It’s been raining here since yesterday afternoon. Finally at about 3 the sun came out and the rain disappeared. That also brought out lots of Butterflies. They’ve probably been sheltering under leaves for quite a while. Just in five minutes I was able to count 5 Gulf Fritillary, 4 Monarchs, 1 Pipevine, 1 Polydamas, and…  This weekend we had a new Butterfly come to visit. It’s a Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly. Although I say it’s a Cloudless Sulphur I could be wrong. In one of my books it says their host plant is clovers, whereas another says it is Senna. This Butterfly was extremely small compared to the “normal” Sulphur we… |
|