Friday, May 4, 2012

Early butterflies

We have seen many varieties of butterflies this spring, not just our usual visitors.
Here's one we don't see through the summer. I'm not sure if it is a Question Mark or a Comma, but it is one of those punctutions.

I found this Buckeye on the inside of one of the greenhouses, beating its wings against the plastic trying to get out.


This Pearl Crescent is new to me. (Aren't these names great? Better than most paint names)

                                                                       

We are starting the next generation of butterflies now
This is the larvae of the Pipevine Swallowtail devouring our pipevine, getting ready to pupate.        They will become the butterfly below.


Soon we will have many of the big butterflies flitting around. Now it mainly the medium-sized butterflies and the little skippers.

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