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Jul 2, 2014 10:31 AM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
Well, the phone woke me up this morning so I went out to pick food a little earlier than usual today. Still, the usual visitors. It does seem like I got all the Pipevine eggs off the plant despite the rain interrupting me yesterday. There's a bunch of these Dainty Sulphurs flying around. Unfortunately, they all hang out on the corners where there's no shade and it's just brutally hot. And getting them to sit still is really hard. I probably got sunburned in the four minutes it took me to get this picture. It's nectaring on frogfruit which is also a host plant for the White Peacock and Phaeon Crescent.

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Ok, not a butterfly, but here's that bee I keep trying to get a picture of. I'm going to research and see what kind he is.

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At least four Duskywings were flying around.

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Gulf Frits still abound.

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And I found that Zebra Longwing cat Mom relocated. He seems to be doing fine.

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