So many pictures to get through! Let's start with yesterday when I was cooped up inside because of the rain. I dug out my Io Moth pupa for a look. Like Monarchs, you can tell if they're going to be male or female. I'm fairly sure the bigger one is female but the other one wasn't quite all the way hardened up so I couldn't be sure.
Now, I play the waiting game. In other news, the Orange-Barred Sulphur made its sling.
Okay, now for today. Everyone was hungry after all that rain. Here's a Zebra Longwing on the red pentas.
And here's a female Spicebush ST. Again with the red pentas.
I get super excited when I check the Pipevine because there are more eggs! Some bug landed on them while I was taking pictures! I blew him off, though.
Back inside, my existing Pipevine eggs hatched!
Back outside, Gulf Fritillary. On RED PENTAS!
Now, just to show you guys, I planted a mixture of red, pink, and magenta pentas. It's not like the red dominates the garden. Stay with me folks, we're going to revisit this in a bit.
I was going around taking lots of fungi pictures when I saw something truly exciting. Not one, but TWO female Pipevine Swallowtails!
I managed to get a photo with both of them in it. Not a great photo, but there they are.
I have two raised beds with Wooly Pipevine. Each has two plants. The one raised bed was planted last year so the vine has grown fairly well. The other I only planted this spring so it's more about putting down roots. But I saw one of the females fly over to it so I figured I better check it, just in case. And in a serious miscalculation, she laid eggs on a vine that's like 6 inches high!
The female Pipevine is still flying around my plant and looking for the perfect spot, and meanwhile there's a party on the Mexican Flame Vine. I had Gulf Frits and Zebra Longwings all over that thing. Just couldn't get my camera to focus on both butterflies at the same time.
Finally, the Pipevine ST starts laying eggs!
Naturally, those eggs are coming inside with me! Well, I guess that's not exactly natural unless you're thinking about it from my point of view.
Meanwhile, the anole's like, "What's going on down there?"
FYI, this is the size of the Pipevine she was laying on. This is one I planted last year.
I'm going in and out of the house and Duskywings are enjoying some porterweed.
I realize my Pipevine has grown through the fence! I find more eggs, but they're either duds or something has eaten on them. I bring them inside, just in case.
Okay, remember the pentas? Well, the Pipevine female got hungry after laying all those eggs and I see her nectaring only on the PINK ones! Victory! She totally ignored the red. Maybe they'd been tapped out? But even if the Pipevine is the only species that wants to eat my pink and purple pentas, I'm okay with that.
Really though , if it gets heated up , using anything is not much works ,, I have two Sisters that have to have shots for it , Poof all over them like another skin it moves , 
My own fault , should of sealed it off to start and washed better after 
