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.
Butterfly And Wildlife Gardening And Photography
Butterfly and Wildlife Gardening And Photography In Houston Texas
Category Archives: Macro Photography Our Sassafras tree is really putting out some nice, soft leaves. I was casually checking the leaves to see if any Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillars were feeding. I then saw this small insect, but I have no idea what it is It was definitely eating the leaf, but I don’t even know where to look to…  Sascha (German Shepherd) and Maggie (Golden Retriever) joined us out in the yard while we were releasing the six Monarch Butterflies (more on that in a later post). Maggie is now 9 years old and is somewhat showing her age. Her muzzle has definitely turned gray, she has some light cataracts, and she tends to…  This is a bit unexpected, but we have lots of Monarch Caterpillars, Chrysalises, and Eggs. Perhaps it’s because it’s December and it’s 80 degrees right now. We have 13 Chrysalises, eggs all over the outside Milkweed, and probably 10 Caterpillars. As we find the Caterpillars we bring them inside as the weather does occasionally get…  I took a couple of pictures today of an event that I’ve never been able to photograph before. Butterfly Caterpillar’s shedding their skin. This first one is a Gulf Fritillary. These are scary looking Caterpillars. Notice at the bottom left of the Caterpillar is the skin that it recently shed. This second picture of a…  Remember the female Monarch that came by to visit the other day? I mentioned that she laid some eggs, and today one of those eggs hatched. I’ve never photographed a Monarch Caterpillar that was a mere minutes old. You can even see its egg casing in the background. It’s quite amazing to me that these…  This guy looks pretty threatening to me. It’s some type of Ant (obviously), but I’m not sure what kind. He was just sitting on one of the Passionvine stems, like waiting to ambush something that would happen to come by. Notice the little hairs on it’s head?  I took out the Macro lens to get some closeup shots of these tiny Spicebush Caterpillars (or so I thought?). I thought since they were on my Sassafras tree they must be Spicebush Caterpillars? Could these be some kind of Moth larvae? The tree is definitely Sassafras. Would anyone confirm these are IO Moth caterpillars?…  I posted the picture yesterday showing the hundreds of Aphid covering my Milkweed plants. Today I’d like to share some pictures of Aphid Predators. I consider these the “Good Guys” when it comes to insects. Everyone knows about Ladybugs and Aphids right? You typically can buy 1500-2000 Ladybugs for about $10.00, spread them around your…  I thought I’d provide a little backyard Butterfly update. We haven’t seen any Monarch Butterflies, but we do have 9 Caterpillars from the one Monarch from Mexico. To give the Caterpillars the best chance of success, I have quarantined them in our Butterfly Enclosure. I did this to protect the Caterpillars from predatory wasps and…  You think you have Aphids? Check out all these Aphids on my Milkweed. My non-quarantined Milkweed is just covered in these insects. I’d spray them off but I know there are also some Ladybug larvae on there as well.  Here’s something I’ve never been able to photograph before. It’s a Ladybug eating an Aphid. The strange thing about this was that the Aphid was still alive and moving, while the Ladybug was eating it (I’m assuming it was eating it, maybe it was just holding it). After a few moments of watching this, another…  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…  I continue to be amazed at how much more detail my Canon 7D can pick up compared to my older Canon 40D. I have two pictures to share that illustrate this. In the first, this is a newborn Monarch on the Gardenia Bush warming up in the sun. I took this picture with my Macro…  This post should illustrate that you just never know what you might find if you look close enough. So I’m out in the backyard today, taking some pictures of Butterflies, when I notice this Honeybee that looks like its head is stuck in between the leaves of this plant. My first thought (seriously) was how… |
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