Lin, your butterfly photos are as awesome as your bird photos. I applaud you!
I have a few of my own to share. Let's see, when I left off I was waiting for my only Cloudless Sulphur this year to emerge. And it did! I posed her on my finger and then put her on the porterweed.
This morning, I woke to a female Orange-Barred Sulphur waiting to be let out. I managed to roll out of bed and get moving. She stayed on my finger for about a second before flying over to rest on one of my bromeliads. But I think it was too hot even for her in the full sun because she then flew over to the Jatropha and rested under a leaf. When the butterflies need shade, you know it's hot.
My Tersa is eating so much! But then, you have to think how much Tobacco Hornworms eat and this guy is basically a Penta Hornworm (I just invented that). So he eats a lot. What's weird is he doesn't poop very much so I think he's really retaining that energy. But look how big that frass is! For those of you who compost, I hope you're adding frass to your mix.
While I was picking Penta leaves, I scared up a Long-Tailed Skipper. It decided to bask on a bromeliad, too!
And while picking Rue for my hungry Black ST cats, I found another one! FYI, Mom is going to the store after "Days of Our Lives" and she's going to pick up some organic parsley to help feed all these critters.
