Pennsville, NJ ~ Visitors to Jenny's Yard

 So proud of the work Jenny's done on building gardens in her yard. It takes time and patience when you aren't feeling your best. I visited this week when I saw 15 species of butterflies along with Snowberry Clearwing and a few hummingbird's. There could have been more species of skippers but there were so many skippers to shift through and ID. Her hard work is showing! Jenny has many flowers & host plants showing if you build it they will come!!

Lots of pollen on this Monarch!

Variegated Fritillary

Eastern-tailed Blue

Common Buckeye

Least

Snowberry Clearwing

Peck's

Fiery

Clouded Sulphur

Gray Hairstreak

 

My Yard ~ Butterflies

This year has been a strange butterfly year with wet.cool weather at the end of June into the July and so the numbers of butterflies have been low.  Hopefully that will change as we get to the end of August and into September & October. 

Silver-spotted skippers

Summer Azure

Common Buckeye

Clouded Sulphur

Variegated Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

 

Butterflies in the Yard

 After 3 days of cool temps in the low 60’s with winds; today was sunny & 75. 3 mint fresh species - Gray Hairstreak, Painted Lady & Silver-spotted plus first sighting of Long-tailed since 11/1.

Silver-spotted 

Sachem

Fiery

Painted Lady

Variegated Fritillary

Long-tailed 

Gray Hairstreak

Fiery

Common Buckeye

My Yard ~ Recent Butterflies

 Seen in my yard. Past few sunny days of low winds & temps 78-82 degrees has kept the butterflies going. 11 species of butterflies still flying including a Monarch, several Common-checkered, several Pearl Crescents and more. ID's below the pictures.

Common-checkered

Cloudless Sulphur

Common Buckeye - Rosa Form

Eastern-tailed Blue

Fiery

Painted Lady

Pearl Crescent

Variegated Fritillary

Yard Butterflies 2024 ~ #24 Variegated Fritillary

 I was out working in the yard today and saw a Fritillary that kept moving in & out of my sights.  Finally, it settled enough to see it was a Variegated Fritillary and she was laying eggs on the garden pansies I plant every year for her.  I baby them along in the heat because that's one of their host plants.  She placed a good number of eggs between the front & yard pansies.  Of course, that meant I needed to play around with my camera and get pictures of the eggs. 

Garden Pansy with Variegated Fritillary Egg

Close-up of Egg

A Second Egg on a New Blossom

Great Butterflies ~ Variegated Fritillary & Juniper Hairstreak

 Lots of good butterflies here. Good numbers of Variegated Fritillaries plus I found a VF chrysalis out by the driveway. it's really gorgeous. Also, found Juniper Hairstreaks which I never expected to find. There is lots of variations of color on the wings.

Variegated Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary Chrysalis

Variegated Fritillary Chrysalis

Juniper Hairstreak

Juniper Hairstreak

Juniper Hairstreak

Cochranville, PA ~ Butterflies & Birds

 Fun day ~ Long, long lunch with friends I worked with at my first nursing job at Delaware County Memorial Hospital 50 years ago. After lunch, some time in my garden watching birds & butterflies. Glad to see a late migrating Ruby-throated hummingbird.

On Thursday, a Fiery finally stopped by my place. It was 9 weeks later than when seen 2022.

Painted Lady

Sachem

Variegated Fritillary

 

Ruby-throated Hummingbird