Nice pix Orion!🐛🦋
The caterpillar is a black swallowtail and they like to eat things like dill. Monarch caterpillars are yellow, black, and white striped and milkweed is their host plant. Your monarch butterfly is a male (in case you were curious). You can tell by the little black dots on their lower wings.
August you should see more monarch activity (especially late August)! Crazy weather lately and that often effects the numbers you see. I have heard/read others saying they have seen a lot fewer monarchs this year, too. August is prime time here in NE though!
I have seen our normal amount of hummingbirds zipping around. For awhile I thought there weren't any but I've seen them more regularly the last couple of weeks.
