A huge perk of planting a butterfly garden by your front door is where caterpillars choose to make its chrysalis – right by the front door.
A monarch chrysalis.
Perfect spot
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Category Archives: Southwest Florida butterfly garden
The queen
It has been a long time since the Queen Butterfly has visited the garden.
This beauty also uses milkweed to lay its eggs. It moved between my milkweed and the blooms on the wild lime tree.
It is a little smaller than the monarch with a wingspan between 6.7-9.8 cm. The wings are a mahogany coloring with black borders and small white spots.
Just a few
A monarch kind of day
Honestly, what’s better than taking a stroll through the garden and seeing the lifecycle of a butterfly unfold right before your eyes?
There was a monarch butterfly stopping on the giant milkweed, and then scattered throughout were caterpillars having a feast on the leaves.
The great
The great southern white caterpillars have reappeared in the garden. I left the pepperweed growing in the garden. Some that I found growing in the yard, I dug up and plainted in pots, as it is the host plant for this butterfly. I am happy to say some are still green and doing great.