Hi everyone! It’s Walter here. Last week Millie showed you all some of the snakes we have in our yard and today I want to show you some of the beautiful butterflies we have.
I love watching all the butterflies in our perennial garden.
Our perennial garden is a butterfly paradise. We have all shapes and sizes. First lets look at one of the smallest.
Silver Spotted Skipper on Clematis
The next largest is the cabbage butterfly. On any given day we can have at least a dozen of them flitting from one flower to the next.
Cabbage Butterfly on Lythrum
The Painted Lady is slightly larger than the Cabbage butterfly and this one had some company while it worked on one of our cone flowers.
Painted Lady butterfly and Zabulon skippers on Pink Coneflower
Those skippers are actually smaller than the silver spotted skipper I showed you first. It was nice of the painted lady to share the coneflower with them.
Last but not least is our largest butterfly appropriately named the Giant Swallowtail.
Giant Swallowtail on Agastache
The Giant Swallowtail looks very different on the top than it does on the underside. You get a good look at what the top side looks like in the above picture. The back lighting lets the top kind of shine through. They are mostly black with lines of yellow on top while the underside has a yellow background with a multicolored pattern like you see in the picture below.
Giant Swallowtail on Clematis
I hope you enjoyed seeing some of the butterflies we have visiting our yard this year. Next week we might show you some different ones so stay tuned.
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Nice to see you! Those butterflies really are so very pretty!
Beautiful butterflies.
We love seeing all the pretty butterflies. That Giant Swallowtail is so nice. Mom much prefers the butterflies to the snakes:)
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
Oh! WoW! We LOVE seeing your butterflies! Alas, the heat has made this a bad year for butterflies here. Thanks so much for sharing, we saw some butterflies we have not seen before.
Both the butterflies and your flowers are just beautiful!
Hari Om
Beauty-flies, that is what they are!!! Thank you, Walter, for the narration, and thanks to mum (or dad?) fur the fotos!!! Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
I am amazed ate 1. your photography and 2. your knowledge of butterfies!
We love butterflies and we LOVED seeing yours. The only one we recognized was the Giant Swallowtail, it comes to visit us too.
What great photos of all those different butterflies. The swallowtail is especially impressive.
Thank you Walter (and your mom).
Gosh you have a beautiful and diverse group of butterflies in your garden and all have been beautifully photographed. Bravo!
we love butterflies and snakes in our yard. I am off to find the snakes, we have been offline for a while
Wow! You sure got some great photos of those butterflies! We’ve been seeing a lot of them around here too, especially on the coneflowers and hydrangea. There’s even been a hummingbird around. This morning we found out it was feeding on the little tiny clover flowers in the lawn. (Hooray for NO pesticides and herbicides on our lawn!)
Those are amazing pictures!
Charlee: “Oooh! Butterflies! We love butterflies!”
Chaplin: “We could stare at them all day!”
Lulu: “And by stare you mean—”
Charlee: “Chase them around the house, if only we could.”
it seems to be a wonderful year for butterflies this year! Everyone is seeing lots of them!
The butterflies and the flowers are beautiful!!!!
Walter, Millie and Peeps
I’m clapping with glee after reading and seeing your post. The buttie pillars are absolutely gorgeous!! Wow and thank you for id’ing the one we had on our lantana.
Hugs cecilia
WOWOWOWOW!!! Our Mama can’t stop ooo-ing and awwww-ing Walter! She has a definite butterfly obsession, and these are such gorgeous specimens!!
xoxo,
Rosy and the Gang
Oh yes, those cabbage butterflies. We had plenty of them and then we had even more caterpillars! They ate all my cabbages!!! They do look nice though.
Klem
Those butterflies are all visitors here, too…and we love to see them. They love our Dahlias. and our cone-flowers and many others, The bees are always joining them too. The other day there was a strange creature, like a small hummingbird, buzzing like a bee, but with bigger wings like a moth. No idea what that was, though. It made a big noise. The camera was not in her* hands, though.
My dentist has a butterfly bush, and it was teeming with monarchs, viceroys and swallowtails and lots of smaller ones too. Butterflies are so beautiful!
Such pretty butterflies. We used to have lots of butterflies when we lived in Central Florida. Here in South Florida, not so much. I think it’s too hot here.
Thank you for visited my furbabies at the Bridge.
Hugs
Hi friend, Ojo here! Your butterflies are very pretty! Much nicer than snakes, if I may say as much! I don’t like most flying things (I HATE flies and wasps – don’t you?), but butterflies are just fine! Welcome, pretty butterflies!