Insect Bonanza

[yourlibrarian]

Never saw a bunch of butterflies clustered together like this before, much less so preoccupied that photos were possible.





I saw this dragonfly buzzing around some plants. It was hard to catch but as it kept circling back to land every time I approached I finally got something relatively close up.





A praying mantis has been hanging out on one of our plants for most of the summer. My partner dubbed her Harriet after Harry in Death in Paradise.

Comments

[shadowkat]

Found it. It's the Pearl Crescent Butterfly.

Phyciodes Tharos

[yourlibrarian]

Good to know!

[full_metal_ox]

Both the caterpillars and the adult butterflies love asters, so that’s one thing you can plant to encourage them.

Seriously—those butterfly group shots are National Geographic material!

[yourlibrarian]

This immediately brought to mind the song The Cover of the Rolling Stone -- I guess for butterflies it would be National Geographic!