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Scroll through the butterflies I've found so far. Click on a butterfly to chase it through our garden and discover.... Go look and see; there are all sorts of stories in this garden: |
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Julia Dryas |
Zebra Heliconian (Zebra Longwing) |
Gulf Fritillary |
Monarch |
Viceroy |
Soldier |
Queen |
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Gray Hairstreak |
Red-Banded Hairstreak |
Mallow Scrub Hairstreak Strymon istapa |
Fulvous Hairstreak Electrostrymon angelia |
 Martial Scrub-Hairstreak |
Giant Swallowtail |
Black Swallowtail |
Palamedes Swallowtail |
Atala |
Buckeye |
Red Admiral |
Ruddy Daggerwing |
Polydamas Swallowtail |
Phaon Crescent |
Cassius Blue |
Ceraunus Blue |
Malachite |
Great Southern White |
Sulphur Butterflies |
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 Orange-Barred Sulphur |
Cloudless Sulphur |
Barred Yellow |
Sleepy Orange |
| empty spots are just butterflies that haven't posed for me yet |
White Peacock |
Variegated Fritillary |
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 Long Tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus |
Dorantes Longtail Skipper Urbanus dorantes |
Firey Skipper Hylephila phyleus |
Hammock Skipper Polygonus leo |
Monk Skipper Asbolis capucinus |
Tropical Checkered Skipper Pyrgus oileus |
Male Horace's Duskywing Skipper, Erynnis horatius |
Female Horace's Duskywing Skipper, Erynnis horatius |
Three-spotted Skipper Cymaenes tripunctus |
Skipper? |
Ambush Bug Eats Ocola Skipper, Panoquina ocola |
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My site is designed to share what I've seen and learned about creating a successful
butterfly garden in my yard down here in South East Florida (and
to help me remember it all). My butterfly photos are from Palm Beach
or Broward Counties unless otherwise noted.
Since I wrote that, I've expanded a bit to plants,
other critters, and more recently
birds. I'm having a blast
learning the local critters, so I'm sharing what I've
photographed and learned about them.
This page shows you the butterflies I've found so far. Click the image or butterfly name to visit my page about that butterfly. You'll see larger photographs of the butterfly, various stages of its life cycle such as it's egg, caterpillar, and chrysalis, and find out what plants it needs to reproduce (host plant) or use as a food source (nectar plant), as well as any other interesting things I've learned about it. I hope you enjoy browsing through my butterfly gardening experiences. As my garden grows, my site does too, so check back every so often to see what's new. |
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| Host Plants are plants that butterflies lay eggs on. The eggs hatch into tiny caterpillars that generally eat for a couple of weeks before making a chrysalis (butterflies) or cocoon (moths.) Click on any image above to visit one of my pages about that butterfly to find the host plant(s) it uses, or visit my host plant page to browse through the thumbnail image gallery of the host plants I've seen eggs or caterpillars on. Click on any of the photos there to go to a page about that host plant. | Nectar Plants are flowering plants that butterflies use their proboscis to sip nectar from. Zebra Heliconian butterflies also eat pollen from the flowers. Some flowers get used more than others, or by more butterflies than others. Some butterflies prefer specific flowers. Each individual butterfly page mentions the flowers I've seen that butterfly use; just click any of the pictures above to go to my page about that butterfly. My nectar plant page has a thumbnail picture gallery of flowers and nectar plants that you can browse through. Click on any of the photos there to go to a page about that flowering plant. | ||
| Each page on the site has the same menu at the bottom so you can easily get back to the main thumbnail image gallery pages. If you lose track of this virtual nature trail and want to check back, Google 'Steph's Birds' or 'Steph's Butterflies' to find your way back again. | |||
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Alternate Endings
Most caterpillars do not become butterflies; they end up as food for some other creature. Visit my bugs page to see some of the bugs that prey on or parasitize butterflies and moths and their larvae (caterpillars) or eggs. You'll also find pages on other creatures I've found in my butterfly garden and in South Florida. |
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To link to this page
on your web site, copy this text <a href="http://butterflies.heuristron.net">Butterflies</a> to your web page. It will look like this: Butterflies |
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