Thanks ya'll. Am glad to help!!! The world needs more butterflies and more larval host plants!!! :o)
This Red Admiral eclosed yesterday but I got home too late to release it. So I went outside this morning to turn it loose. The weather was still a bit cool but I dripped a little bit of nectar (from the hummingbird feeder) onto my finger and stuck my hand into the cage. It quickly climbed on and started feeding. Poor little bugger was hungry!!!
I let it feed and kept added more drops of nectar for about an hour. Spent my time taking various photos of it before setting it down on a bench with a cotton boll soaked in nectar and leaving it to fly off on it's own.
