Very colorful butterfly, the metallic blue really stands out when the sun hits it just right. Hard to get a good picture as its wings are always moving. It doesn’t stay in one place long.
Pipevine Swallowtail
Month: July 2011
Tiger Swallowtail #3
Some of the female Tiger Swallowtails are black and mimic the Pipevine Swallowtail, which retains some of the poisonous properties of its host plant, Aristolochia(pipevine) and is most unplatable to its bird and lizard enemies. This helps to protect them.
A little more nature, Tiger Swallowtail #2
A little more nature, Tiger Swallowtail
As Daffnet is rather slow right now, I went out and took a few more native butterfly pictures, For your enjoyment. All of these are at my home in Southaven, Mississippi. A little south of Memphis, Tennessee. Most of these…
Journal should be in the post office tomorrow
About noon on Friday, the printing firm called and said, “Your box of Journals is ready. When I got there an hour later to pick them up, they said they’d also gone to the mailing service. Realistically, they’ll go from…
Narcissus flag flying in California…
a random Autumn Colors seedling is flowering in the seedling cans today. Been open a few days, it is warm here on the coast for a change so not at it best, but wow what a fragrance, similar to the…