It is 5F outside, so this is fun!

Red Admiral
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Tiger Swallowtail

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Beautiful pictures!
Echinacea isn't as popular with butterflies here as other nectar flowers, but I got a picture of this little lace-wing roadside skipper nectaring one day - since then, I've only seen one of these little beauties. Their host plant is canes, same as for southern pearly eyes, so I dug up some roadside plants last summer, potted them up, and planted them in the bottom of the hollow several weeks ago - let's hope they take!
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I also got a picture of an American lady on one. This coneflower is the one with the narrower leaves, that originated somewhere in Louisiana - it blooms better here than the regular echinaceas, so I scattered the seeds all over my new meadow -
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Sherry

JIMINY CRICKETS........these pictures are SPECTACULAR!!!!!!! You ladies have outdone yourselves. Gosh, if I actually knew how to put pictures inside the body of a post here at GW, I'd probably be too ashamed to put them there alongside these masterpieces. These pics literally made my heart sing and skip a beat. Thank you for sharing them. Such wonderous beauty. Wow. Which cameras are you ladies using? Goodness Sakes...I have been AWED y'all!! ~~Angie :o)

Thanks, Angie!
I'm using a simple point-and-shoot Canon PowerShot A490 that only cost $100 - you can't beat it for the price!
Modern digital cameras are good, because you can practice and delete over and over again without having to pay to have pictures printed. Eventually, you'll get some good pictures, and you can keep those.

Sherry

Angie,

Angie,
It took me a little while to get used to how to post pictures on here. ItâÂÂs not the same as you and I are used to elsewhere, but itâÂÂs not what IâÂÂd call hard either, just more steps.

First of all, you need to have/open an account on a photo hosting website like Photobucket (thatâÂÂs where I have one). Upload your photo to that website. Before you post it on Gardenweb, you might want to open another window to make things easier; then you can toggle back and forth between the two websites.

In your Photobucket album, hover your mouse over the picture that you want to post; and a box will appear around the picture and other information will come up. Click on the box after âÂÂHTML CodeâÂÂ; it will copy that code. Then go to your post in Gardenweb and paste it in into the message box where you want your picture to show up. You wonâÂÂt see the actual picture until after you click on the Preview Message button. If you decide that itâÂÂs too big, you can go back to Photobucket and edit it to a smaller size. Also, you can upload many pictures to Photobucket.

As IâÂÂm sure youâÂÂve noticed, you can paste more than just one picture in each post here on Gardenweb. IâÂÂm really not sure if thereâÂÂs a limit or not. I think the most I ever posted was 5 or 6. You know me with my pictures, so I could post and post and people would be scrolling for an hour. Ha. I wouldn't actually do that though!

IâÂÂll post a photo here of one of the Question Marks that I raised this year. I raised this one on a small (about 3 feet) hackberry tree that I had in a 3-gallon pot. I just wintersowed a few more hackberry seeds this week and will plant the trees outside in a few years once theyâÂÂre a few feet tall. I had never seen a Question Mark here before I had a few of these trees sitting out back in pots close to our back porch. I watched them for eggs (or would sometimes even see the butterfly lay the eggs (they only lay a few per tree of that size, in my experience). When IâÂÂd find eggs, IâÂÂd move the tree onto our screened back porch so the eggs and cats would be protected. ItâÂÂs the same place where I also raise most of the other butterflies that I raise.

HereâÂÂs the Question Mark and also a pic of deer that have been coming into our yard a lot lately. ItâÂÂs not a picture of butterflies, but those plants in the picture are a few of my rue plants. :-)

Question Mark:
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Deer in yard and rue in garden:
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Sorry about the poor quality of the last picture. It was taken from our upstairs bathroom window; our house is probably about 200 feet from where they were standing.

I've enjoyed all of the pictures! Here are mine...

Wild Indigo Duskywing:

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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Black Form):
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail:
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Silver-spotted Skipper:
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Dun Skipper:
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These are all from this year. I've also had other kinds of butterflies on the coneflowers, probably almost every kind that I've ever seen here. They're a very popular flower! My other most popular flowers with the butterflies are Verbena bonariensis and the butterfly bush.

Cathy

Wonderful pictures!

Wild Indigo Duskywing (Erynnis baptisiae)
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Horace's Duskywing (Erynnis horatius)
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Sachem ((Atalopedes campestris)
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Dun Skipper (Euphyes vestris)
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Bob

Two photos, same butterfly:

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Karen

Thanks for the help Cathy! I will try again to see if I can get it. I do have a Photobucket account. Love all the pics here.~~Angie

Lots of really nice pictures folks. Way better than I get from my digitals. Thanks for sharing them.

BTW, have 3 digital cameras for sale. Hardly used. LOL

Larry

The photos above are absolutely spectacular. What a treat to look at them again and again!

I think I need a new camera, but nonetheless here's another Question Mark this time wearing its Texas garb ...
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