Category Archives: Purple Coneflower I found a new Butterfly that we’ve never seen in the backyard before. It’s a Pearl Crescent. It was hopping all around the Purple Coneflowers getting nectar. This is not an easy Butterfly to get pictures of, especially with their wings open! Here’s a picture with the wings closed. It was resting on the Spicebush...  These Purple Coneflowers are really attracting all kinds of Butterflies. Today we saw our first Gulf Fritillary of the season for 2010. All the Purple Coneflowers that we have this year are from Leecy planting the seeds from previous seasons. I thought I would put together some brief videos on how to create a successful Butterfly Garden for my last day of vacation. There are a total of 5 videos, each one is less than 2 minutes long. Watching these should give you a decent idea of how to start (or continue) a successful Butterfly...  I found around five Monarch Caterpillars feeding on Milkweed. There were also two females flying around getting nectar from various plants. Here’s a female Monarch sipping nectar on a Purple Coneflower. Same Monarch, different pose.  We did have a Queen Butterfly hatch from a Chrysalis yesterday. This may be her. Here’s a Queen Butterfly sipping nectar on a Purple Coneflower. Here’s another shot |
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