It’s a dreadful Saturday morning in Florida, our first cold front of the season is moving through spawning 35 mph winds and pouring rain. I spotted some new butterflies in my garden this week and decided that would be a better post than blurry, windblown flowers photos. I started a pollinator garden about two years ago and was astonished at how many butterflies appeared in my garden to devour my botanical treats. Here are a few:
The Giant Swallowtail on Firebush.
Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar on Senna ligustrina.
Zebra Longwing Butterfly:
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly on Zinnias:
Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly on Firebush:
Black Swallowtail on screen porch:
For more Six on Saturday posts, hopefully from drier gardens – follow this link to The Propagators blog More SOS.
Happy Gardening!
The Shrub Queen 
Beautiful butterflies, Amelia!
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Thank you
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Your garden certainly worked. We got the storm two days ago and are expecting a nice, but cool weekend. There’s lots of work to do outside, so the weather is perfect.
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Hoping for perfect weather to follow here! Got my screen about half done.
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Can’t wait to see it.
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Me too!
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Butterflies!!!! No Snow!!!!! How happy these photos make me!!!!! LOVE the Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar!
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Yaaaaaay! I should take some more caterpillar pictures-there are some funky cats in my garden.
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A great example of “If you build it, they will come.” 🙂
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Exactly and oddly simple
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We have some lingering bits of snow on the ground with more to come tomorrow and Tues here in northern New England, so I am especially loving seeing these gorgeous lepidoptera, particularly the cloudless sulphur butterfly caterpillar, which I’ve never seen before. Thanks!
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Wow, we had a cold front yesterday that finally dropped the temps into the 70s..I have a lot of Sulphurs since I planted a host plant (Senna) I enjoy the butterflies and am happy to hear you did.
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Wow fantastic butterfly pics, lovely to see. That first one is particularly fab, very bright.
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Dang! Your butterflies are as unfamiliar and impressive as the flowers in your garden!
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