Thursday, September 3, 2015

My Yard ~ Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly

Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar 9/4/12
For the past 3-4 years we have been planting Partridge Pea in our yard hoping for the Cloudless Sulfur Butterflies to lay eggs on it as it's a host plant for several of the Sulphur species.  In 2012 I saw one caterpillar on it that then was lost to a storm (or at least I never saw it again).  Last year we planted it in several spots in the front gardens.  This year we did the same.  Today's reward was seeing a Cloudless Sulphur laying many eggs along its leaves.  I can't wait to see if the eggs hatch and the caterpillars grow.
Cloudless Sulphur laying eggs 

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