Butterfly And Wildlife Gardening in Houston, Butterfly And Wildlife Photography
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Category Archives: Eastern Black Swallowtail Leecy and I have had this collection of Eastern Black Swallowtail Chrysalises since October 2009. I had previously read that occasionally some of these Butterflies don’t hatch out of their Chrysalises until the following Spring. That seemed like an awful long time for these Butterflies to stay in the Chrysalis stage, but what did I...  Active day today for Butterflies and Honeybees. They tend to fight on the Cigar Bush. We also had two Eastern Black Swallowtails hatch and one Polydamas. The Skippers were lively today as well. Last but not least, there were a couple of young Monarchs flying around.  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.”  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...  We’re starting to see an increase in the number of Butterflies we have. One of the Butterfly Caterpillars that we haven’t seen for a while are the Eastern Black Swallowtails. We haven’t seen too many of the adults, but they are making their presence known as our Fennel is really starting to get chewed down. |
