We have had a record number of sulphur butterflies emerge in our butterfly house, 25 in 10 days. We’ve had both orange barred and cloudless sulphur butterflies emerge.
The best part . . . the number of sulphurs fluttering about the garden every day continuing the life cycle. The photo below shows many white eggs that have been deposited on the edge of the candlestick cassia plant.
The temperatures have been a little cooler, by that I meam a few degrees – still 90s/80s, and a nice, a bit cooler wind, so I’ve gravitated back into the garden after apparently ignoring it for way too long. All of the rain has made everything double, if not triple in size, including the weeds.
So, I’ve decided to tackle the farthest point of the garden and move backward. This area includes a section near my candlestick cassia. The tree is growing in every direction and is crawling with sulphur caterpillars, both orange barred and cloudless sulphur caterpillars.
When cutting back my scorpion tail, I found quite a few chrysalis, which have been moved to my butterfly house.
The orange barred sulphur butterflies have been super busy in the garden the last few days. This one continuously stopped and deposited eggs on my bahama cassia tree, which will soon be crawling with caterpillars.
We recently had six orange barred sulphurs emerge in our butterfly house.
These butterflies are such a ray of sunshine, always drawing your eyes out the window when fluttering about.
The orange barred sulphurs were busy in the garden today. My Bahama cassia now has an abundance of eggs.
It’s rare I can capture this beauty with its wings open, let alone depositing eggs on the leaves, as it is such a fast flyer.
