Showing posts with label Summer Azure Butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer Azure Butterfly. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Beth's Patch ~ Autumn Joy Sedum And Pollinators

 Autumn Joy Sedum is a "chocolate cake" to the butterflies & bugs when blooming in the fall. It can get tall, leggy and fall over so I cut mine back twice during the summer so it gets bushier and stays more compact. Sedum loves full sun but can also take partial shade. It's so worth it to have in your gardens. And if you knock a branch off just stick it into the ground where it'll root itself

Sachem Skippers


Gray Hairstreak



Summer Azure

Summer Azure (top left) and Eastern-tailed Blue (bottom right)

Crab Spider waiting to take an unsuspecting butterfly

American Lady

Painted Ladies and Common Buckeyes




Native Honey Bee




Milkweed Bug


Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Beth's Patch - Summer Butterflies

Broad-winged Skipper with curled proboscis

Broad-winged Skipper showing more curled proboscis

Fiery Skipper

Fiery Skipper
Fiery Skipper
Summer Azure butterfly - Working on DOF and getting good focus on the butterflies with the butterfly's proboscis still curled. Upper butterfly wing a little soft but acceptable for now. This 
butterfly is less than dime-sized.