Awesome! I have a place ontop the mountsin thst has a massive amount of fsllen trees early spring i walked up there with Beanie my weiny dog to find litterally hundteds of them they must hsve just hatched out i didnt have phone to tske photo bit o will do the same next year for y'all to see. Ive see so many yellow ones anywhere.

Hahaha

I watched 3 Monarchs trying to have a Menage a Trois today. Heh

Still a lot of Monarchs today - cat count today was 6

no Menage a Trois , but I did get a shot of a male trying to seduce a female black st
in front of the very fennel I hope she lays her eggs on , but she seems more interested in wandering around the yard



and a 10 sec. video clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Neat clip!

Eastern Tailed Blue - correction - Gray Hairstreak


Silver Spotted Skipper twofer -


Skipper up close -

It gets better , I went back out and found 3 black st cats on the fennel

whoa whoa whoa .. just what is the white bloom ? that is definitely not the dew drop inn

Jack, that's a Gray Hairstreak, and please do tell us what it's on. Some kind of Agastache?

My bed swallowed me whole today. I think I might go make a pot of tea and see if that helps.

Thank goodness I proofread. I originally told Jack he had a Gray Swallowtail. I think I'm going straight for the B-12 shot. This requires something stronger than caffeine.

Thanks for the correction.
It's on spearmint.

pretty , it does look like agastache-ish. I was thinking butterfly bush but the leaves did not look right

Not my best photo work , There today has been a male Monarch patroling about , a Question mark , Crescents , Hummingbirds A raccoon , hmmm ??? Silver Spotted Skippers ..
This is all that would stay stiill
American Lady

I'm going to guess Jack's gray hairstreak is on a spearmint bloom.

Christine , I do think he has mentioned it in a previous post , it does sound familiar now that I thought about it.
Unfortunately my bed not only didn't swallow me , it rejected me after 5 hours and my batteries are a little low at the moment.
I'm tempted to curl up and go back to sleep but really should go out and water plants and finish mowing the lawn.

Sorry to intrude folks... But just wondering??

Is this a newly hatched Variegated Fritillary?

Took a walk today looking for a milkweed source. I found one.. and 14 more caterpillars followed me home as well.

Hi Donna, you're not intruding but you are welcome to post any time! Oh how lucky finding an emerging butterfly! Thank you for sharing.. since I'm not sure of the name of your butterfly, I'll be waiting to find out too.

Hi there Donna - kind of hard to tell just yet. Any way you can go out and get another picture once the wings are open further?

But our resident expert, Melanie, will be able to tell you, probably from the husk of the cocoon behind it there.

Donna, jump in anytime! Is that the chrysalis you posted a few days ago that I think I commented on? I don't get Variegated Fritillaries in my yard, although I have seen them in Florida. But I've raised them at MOSI and that chrysalis did look like one and your butterfly there looks like one, too. Glad to see it emerged perfectly. Now send some my way!

Cross-posting with Elaine. I'm a "resident expert". Woo hoo!

Thanks Christine, I been finding the wild looking chrysalis all over the yard this year, and Melanie identified them for me...

Seems something has found all my disliked wild violets a splendid feast....

Well, that looks like a fritillary caterpillar. Although I'm not sure if it's Variegated or Gulf fritillary.