Wayne's Butterfly Garden

At last......a visit to my Garden from a Monarch butterfly!

Wayne's Butterfly Garden

The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is a large butterfly appropriately named for the vertical black stripes on yellow wings.  It is a frequent visitor to butterfly gardens and feeds on the nectar of various flowers including butterfly bush, lilac, milkweed and cone flowers.  The caterpillars feed on the leaves of tulip poplar, wild cherry, and sweetbay.

Wayne's Butterfly Garden

The butterfly for today is the "Pearl Crescent", a small butterfly that is common throughout most of the U.S. and southern Canada.   Plant some asters if you want regular visits from Pearl Crescents as the leaves of asters are what the caterpillars feed upon.

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Wayne's Butterfly Garden

This is Wayne's 2nd year with a butterfly garden, and it is amazing the number of interesting and beautiful butterflies that come to visit. He keeps adding new attractor plants and feeder plants for the caterpillars, and every day seems to see a different butterfly. Many are very colorful, some are not....and, not all are attracted to flowers. Some like to feed on organic decay and visit the compost pile...trying to get decent shots of those with a more pleasing background is not always easy.

He will be posting new butterflies and a description of each in the upcoming days.
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This is the "Question Mark" butterfly.

The Question Mark butterfly gets its name from the white (silver) question mark in the center of the hind wing underside. Question Marks feed on animal droppings, rotting fruit and at sap flows, and are apt to visit your garden if you place some fruit in a strategic location.

September 10 at 4:40pm · ·

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This is my 2nd year with a butterfly garden and it is amazing the number of interesting and beautiful butterflies that come to visit. I will post photos of my visitors over the next several days.

Slow water

I'm back!  It's not that I haven't been taking photos, just busy trying to make a living.  I got to go to Great Smoky Mountain National Park last month - after discovering that it's in my backyard.  Amazingly beautiful place.  On our way home we went out the rutty, wet, hilly, muddy little one way road out of Cades Cove where there were many little, burbling creeks that crossed and recrossed the road.  I finally couldn't stand it and had to stop to take some pictures.

I think I've finally managed to capture "slow water."