A new visitor has made its way to our butterfly garden, a white peacock butterfly. The wingspan is 2 to 2 3/4 inches.

The life cycle ranges anywhere from six to 20 days.

This butterfly’s host plant is water hyssop and frogfruit. The eggs can take up to 14 days to hatch and are a pale yellow in color.

This beauty enjoys basking in the sun with its wings wide open, which is exactly what this one was doing on a variety of plants in the garden.

This butterfly gets its name from the large “eye spots” on the wings that resemble peacock feathers.

Once it was soaking up the sun it was not bothered by me inching a little closer to capture its beauty. I sure hope it becomes a regular.