Here's our new butterfly thread for June.

We came from here: The thread "May 2017 Butterflies, Moths & Larva" in Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum

Butterflies do love zinnias!

The rockrose is always a big hit with the skippers.



A hairstreak butterfly on Vitex.

Repost from the May thread:

I just saw what looked like a moth or a giant bee, sort of, but acted like a hummingbird! So I searched for "hummingbird moth" and there it is! Couldn't get a picture because it wouldn't stay still for me.
http://www.massaudubon.org/lea...

Sometimes, you can just feel blessed to see something beautiful like this.

They are beautiful and amazing to see!

Not too long ago I saw this caterpillar on the leaves of Virginia Creeper and was thinking it would probably become a beautiful hummingbird moth.

But I think it probably became this moth...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/...

I was so happy today to see a black swallowtail butterfly in the veg garden, visiting some of the small volunteer dill plants -- maybe laying eggs? Quite a few years ago we had a good population of the swallowtails and their cats -- that's when I started letting dill go pretty crazy in the garden; for the past few years, it's been a rare sighting (I think since the bad winter of 2013-2014). Last year I did find a couple of the caterpillars, so I hope this is signaling a comeback!

Good Lord! The front yard is abuzz with Pipevine butterflies but they are flying around like a bunch of schizophrenics and will not stay in one place long enough for a photo....YET. I'll get them eventually. My pipevine was covered with cats so I believe this bunch to be part of that group.

Christine,
Here's a pic of the moth I had last summer:

wildflowers said:They are beautiful and amazing to see!

Not too long ago I saw this caterpillar on the leaves of Virginia Creeper and was thinking it would probably become a beautiful hummingbird moth.

Wow, Cheryl, its a very pretty moth.

A lousy photo but I finally got at least something. Pipe Vine Swallowtail.

I think it's a very pretty picture!!

Thanks @wildflowers Christine. It's just not sharp enough to show how gorgeous this butterfly is. He was also not cooperating in letting me get a shot and that incredible iridescent blue. I'll get him tomorrow I hope.

so, butterflies are attracted to dill weed?

Black Swallowtail butterfly caterpillars eat dill , fennel and pretty much any member of the parsley / carrot family of plants.

and speaking of BST butterflies after a month of inactivity I released BST female #10 today , still 3 chrysalises left.

@krobra, !

Guess what I'm planting tomorrow?

Like the last two I posted on the May thread
painted Lady on Knapweed , likes the Thistle like blooms One Morning there was two or three of them



Still not sure if these are an Azure or a Blue


Seeing Skippers and a few

pretty sure it is a Azure Jim ,

http://pwconserve.org/graphics...

http://pwconserve.org/wildlife...

Kurt Yep looks like it is
They like feeding on the Chinese privet . always several , even if the Daisy is where they sit

The nervous Pipe Vine. They are already laying eggs on the pipe vine again.

Visitor to the porch late last night. After a bit of research I believe it to be a Rustic Sphinx Moth (Manduca rustica). This is a very large moth.