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Old August 23, 2018   #166
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I just realized I have not seen many butterflies this summer. There are just some Cabbage butterflies flying around. Early spring I saw one Peacock butterfly and one Small tortoiseshell, which must have been overwintered as adults. The hot and dry summer may have caused that there was not enough to eat for the caterpillars. We have had a lot of wasps and dragonflies so it may also be that there has been too many predators around.
I love the Peacock's colors and big 'eyes'. This photo is from summer 2016. I do not like yellow flowers so much, but butterflies seem to love them, so every year I grow marigolds for them.
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Old August 23, 2018   #167
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And the fabulous butterflies look so good on the yellow!
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Old August 23, 2018   #168
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How about bats and mothes
Here is a yuca bloomed two years in a row my place.
Picture taken this morning.
Close to ten feet tall.
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Old August 23, 2018   #169
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That peacock butterfly is a beauty! I've never seen them before.
Worth, that is a very impressive yucca. Would love to see your bats.
Here are a few of the flowers that keep our bees and butterflies busy.. The blue spikes in the background seem to be popular with the butterflies but I can't catch them when they're on it... it is a garden Speedwell.
Oregano seems to be everybody's favorite (everyone with wings that is).
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Old August 23, 2018   #170
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Bats are pollinators, so bring on the plants that they like! I remember from biology
classes that the Yucca is pollinated by only one moth, correct?

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Old August 23, 2018   #171
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Beautiful photos!

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Old August 23, 2018   #172
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Bats are pollinators, so bring on the plants that they like! I remember from biology
classes that the Yucca is pollinated by only one moth, correct?

Donna
some are I guess but what ever moth it is it probably didn't follow the plant here.
This is a mountain yucca that is thought to be a natural cross from the high areas of Mexico.
Bought it when it was a baby.
Looks like it is about to branch out.
I know the tree frogs like it and I bet I know why, they ain't stupid.
I find them all the time perched inside those sharp spines.
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Well today was the first serious butterfly day of the season! I glanced out the window and saw them fluttering about. So I took the camera and went for a stroll. Only two types of butterfly - the Comma and the red Admiral - but there were a dozen + of each of them. I went all around the garden and every butterfly I saw was on.... oregano! The other flowers are just for show. Actually the bumblebees are working everything but there were a lot of them busy on oregano today. It must be in primo nectar condition right now.
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Old August 26, 2018   #174
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Default Hummingbirds here at last

They finally arrived in my backyard. It looked like a Ruby-Throated on one of the feeders. They'll be here for several weeks before heading further south for the winter.

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Congrats Donna!
The birds on the East Coast have started moving. Here in the Central Region they don't start migration until September. I still have a male who is just going through his molt. He will not move until his new feathers are in. I find this interesting because most adult males molt and migrate here in the end of July or early August. I also still have one female who is tending a nest, so these birds will not be leaving very soon.
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Congrats Donna!
The birds on the East Coast have started moving. Here in the Central Region they don't start migration until September. I still have a male who is just going through his molt. He will not move until his new feathers are in. I find this interesting because most adult males molt and migrate here in the end of July or early August. I also still have one female who is tending a nest, so these birds will not be leaving very soon.
Wise is the bird who waits for his feathers. These plants were beautifying the parking lot for a public tennis court/baseball diamond in my area. I saw them on the way home from shopping. The butterflies and bees were feasting. Dwarf poinciana "Pride of Barbados," asclepias, Knockout Rose, and Duranta.

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Those are lovely flowers, Donna.
Got another surprise - dozens of colorful caterpillars, but not on the oregano with their mothers. They were all on agrimony, on both sides of the yard, none other.
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I just realized I have not seen many butterflies this summer. There are just some Cabbage butterflies flying around. Early spring I saw one Peacock butterfly and one Small tortoiseshell, which must have been overwintered as adults. The hot and dry summer may have caused that there was not enough to eat for the caterpillars. We have had a lot of wasps and dragonflies so it may also be that there has been too many predators around.
I love the Peacock's colors and big 'eyes'. This photo is from summer 2016. I do not like yellow flowers so much, but butterflies seem to love them, so every year I grow marigolds for them.

Stunningly beautiful pictures and the contrast is wonderful, too.
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ZERO set flowers on the yucca plant twice in two years.
I have never seen these things set fruit.

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All of yalls flowers look nice.
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