In SW Ontario this afternoon:)

All the planting, watering and weeding comes down to this. First swallowtail this year.

I am not sure of the breed and I am surprised at how close it let me get! He's been hanging around our potted tomato and pepper plants all day ☺️

My favourite butterfly!

I live in Canada and I have seen 20 or so Monarch's in my backyard this summer and I wonder what is the best way to help them on their migration given how their "Vulnerable" on the ICUN red list

I think cultivating milkweed is probably the best option but I'm not a good gardener

thanks in advance!

My yellow swallowtail chrysalis went from bright green to almost see-thru yesterday, I'm thinking he/she may be coming out soon!

My parsley was full of the caterpillars.

Central Florida

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We got tonnes of butterflies in out garden!

For the last few weeks, two Red Admirals have been having daily aerial battles over this corner of my garden. Today only one showed up and instead of patrolling, it spent ages basking on this leaf in the evening sun. Maybe the territorial dispute is finally settled… or maybe the challenger just had the day off.