Beth's Patch ~ American Snouts

It's been a busy year here for the American Snout butterflies.  They have been here just about everyday since the middle of July laying eggs on the Hackberry tree -turned bush.  The story to that is Hackberry is a soft wood doesn't hold up to our winds and it breaks off easily in a wind so several years ago mid-summer ,I cut it back at bout 3 foot.  Then, it starting growing branches and leafs which brought in the American Snout butterflies and the Question Mark butterflies which laid eggs on many of the leaves.  So, I decided against chopping it totally down to keep it for them each year.  now I trim it back.

American Snout butterfly egg