We saw lots of Butterflies in the backyard today, two of which we’ve never seen before. One of the Butterflies that we’ve never seen before in the backyard was this Palamedes Swallowtail. It was feeding on one of our Butterfly Bush plants.
Butterfly And Wildlife Gardening And Photography
Butterfly and Wildlife Gardening And Photography In Houston Texas
Category Archives: Butterfly Gardening In Houston I have some new pictures to share of the Wildflower Garden and the Butterfly And Hummingbird Wildflower Gardens. I’m also throwing in a picture of a Gardenia shrub for good measure. Originally I built this bird pond which I hoped would attract birds drinking in the pond. While that idea worked, cleaning the pond was…  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…  It took me a while to identify this Butterfly because it’s missing its tail. It’s a Gray Hairstreak Butterfly, and it was getting nectar from our seeding Cilantro. The plant growing in front of the Cilantro are Sugar Peas.  For the first time in my backyard I saw (and photographed) a Texan Crescent Butterfly. It appeared to be very attracted to the nectar in the Indian Blanket Wildflowers. These are probably the most abundant Wildflowers we have in our Wildflower garden.  I have some pictures of Eastern Black Swallowtails that I wanted to share. Before I get to that, I wanted to share some information and see if others might have noticed the same thing. We’ve had quite a few eggs and Caterpillars from the Eastern Black Swallowtail, but just as the Caterpillars get to be… I finally captured a new video of a Monarch emerging from its Chrysalis. Also, for what it’s worth, I’m doing a little experimenting with the video player on my blog. I’m trying to make the videos accessible to iPads and iPhones (and other non-Flash devices). To use the new video player click on the “Play”…  Another great day for the Monarch Butterflies! We released a total of 9 Monarch Butterflies today. I said yesterday that I was going to try and record some video of this event, and I did, but the videos didn’t come out as good as I would have liked, so I’m just going to post some…  It was a beautiful day outside and once the weather warmed up just a bit, the Butterflies started emerging from their Chrysalises (Monarchs) or they wandered over to our Butterfly and Hummingbird garden. This is the first Pipevine Swallowtail we have seen in 2011, and it was going crazy on the red Wildflowers. It was…  In the past 3 days we have released a total of 31 Monarch Butterflies. All of the releases were from the first Monarch we saw this year that had migrated from Mexico. I’m guessing we may have another 8-10 that will be ready for release tomorrow. If at all possible, I’m going to try and…  Anyone know what type of eggs these are? These are on my Redbud Tree. These don’t look like any type of Butterfly eggs that I’ve seen before.  All but a couple of Monarch Caterpillars have gone to the Chrysalis stage. I think Leecy said we have about 45 or so Chrysalises in our Butterfly Enclosures. You’ll notice in this picture that there are two Caterpillars that did not make it to the Chrysalis stage (on the left hand side of the picture)….  We have our first set of Monarch Chrysalises from the original female Monarch we saw back a few weeks ago. I’d say we have about 20 Chrysalises right now, and at least 20 more to go (the Caterpillars are still eating). I’d like to say we’ll have plenty of Milkweed once they eclose, but I…  What a difference a day makes! Today was a beautiful day, nothing but sunshine. That, in turn, brought out the hungry Monarch Caterpillars. I was totally surprised when I went outside to check on them and found out that they were clustering on the two remaining Milkweed plants they had not already devoured. I’m going…  I had no idea we had so many Monarch Caterpillars! Because of their size, I decided it would be in the best interest of their safety if I moved them to our Butterfly Enclosure. There are six Milkweed plants in the Enclosure. With so many Monarch Caterpillars, I don’t expect these plants to have many… |
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