Thanks Ann and thank you J for the moth identification.

Thanks Ann and J!

The amazing thing is that I had a camera with me and could use it with one hand!

You got that right! And I'm assuming you're right handed. What luck it landed on your left hand! That can't happen very often!!!!

It's great too b/c with your fingers in the photo, it allows us to really see the size of the butterfly.

Yes, I am right handed.

If you are gauging the size of the Butterfly, my hands are quite small, as I am all of 5 feet tall.

Then all I have to do is look at my own hands. We are of like size.

That's great Ann!!!

Maybe that's why I was not so threatening to the little Butterfly!!

Kind of an amazing day today - saw 9 varieties including about a 100 blues/hairstreaks in the garden today. They were concentrated in 4 locations;
two were in mints and two in wildflower stands (Tall boneset and New England Aster). The other varieties - Red Spotted Purple, Skipper, Sulphur (maybe 2 var), White, Am Snout, Buckeye, and a Pearl Crescent. Got pics of all but the last one which I must have inadvertently discarded when culling the several hundred pics down to a manageable number.
Here's a selection - first my favorite view of the blues, when wings are spread (which isn't very often)-






Some close ups -



8 blues in this pic - - (opps, wrong pic here, see next post below for the 8)


American Snout w/ 3 blues -


Sulphur & 3 blues - With 6 blues -

Sulphur / sunflower -

Orange Sulphur ('alba' form} -


Cabbage White -




Buckeye -


Red Spotted Purple - Skipper -
(Latter two posted earlier today)

Got the wrong pic of 8 blues above (not 8 there), here's the 8 -

Amazing J!!

What a variety; you're so lucky!

Wow J, you sure had a great butterfly day!

Thanks all.

Wow J! What a butterfly day!!! You must have felt like a kid in a candy store with all those butterflies around. What a phenomenal day!

Swallowtail on the Abelias

Pretty, I can see the fuzz on it's body.

I love their "fur", too!

Loving all these great B'fly photo's ... great shots everyone!

J: You sure do have a wide variety of beauties visiting your garden; I love that bunch of blues on the Eupatorium flowers!

Janice: Great shot of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail; I've been seeing them down here the past few days too. I just took these pic's a few minutes ago. My husband was in the garage and came in and said "There's another real big butterfly out here you should take a picture of." It was the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and it let me get real close for some photo's:



Spotted a Gulf Frit earlier today too: