Butterflies & Plants II - Naturewide Images

BUTTERFLIES & PLANTS II

More butterflies and plants from our garden

Creamy Stripe-streak, a rare visitor to the U.S., nectars on Myoporum (3 June 2005)

Marine Blue feeding on Myoporum (27 May 2005)

Reakirt's Blue (17 Nov 2005) (L), Spring Azure (18 Nov 2005) (Center), and Acmon Blue (13 Nov 2005) (R). All are feeding on the shrub Dalea bicolor, an excellent source of fall nectar.

A Great Purple Hairstreak basking on gravel (25 Feb 2006). Caterpillars of this stunner eat mistletoe.

Leda Ministreaks: Winter morph nectaring on Dalea bicolor (19 Nov 2005) (L); a late summer morph on Salvia leucantha (12 Nov 2004) (R)

Fatal Metalmark nectaring on Mt. Lemmon Marigold (2 November 2006)

Zela Metalmark nectaring on Buddleia davidii, one of the most productive butterfly attractants (8 July 2004); a worn Mormon Metalmark suns on grasses (4 May 2005)

Ares Metalmark (a crab spider victim) on Buddleia (20 September 2006)

An Elada Checkerspot nectars on vine milkweed (24 July 2006)

Tiny Checkerspot on Chocolate Flower (28 September 2006)

Theona Checkerspot, a very infrequent visitor, nectars on coneflower (19 July 2009)

A Texan Crescent sunning on Buddleia (31 October 2006)

A Mylitta Crescent nectars on Pink Chintz Thyme (2 November 2006)

An American Snout nectars on Russian Sage (Perovskia ) (18 August 2006), and another feeds on Dalea bicolor (2 Nov 2006)

A Tropical Leafwing feeds on Bobcat scat just outside the back door. This was butterfly #99 for the yard (28 October 2007).

Nobokov's Satyrs sunning in garden: spring form (above) (27 Apr 2004), late summer form (below) (6 September 2006)

Each year, one or two Red-bordered Satyrs stray from the high canyons and end up in our yard. This very worn individual is missing its right rear wing (11 October 2009)

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