I've had several chances to photograph a Red Admiral Butterfly, but they just do NOT want their picture taken! They fly high and fast.  I've walked, run, and even gotten the ladder out and chased one up a tree with my camera, only to get fuzzy distant pictures.

Update, and new Red Admiral Butterfly pictures on the page:

I finally got decent photos when this Red Admiral Butterfly stopped to nectar on a Bloodberry Bush.

I have a very tiny Bloodberry Bush in a pot, and I'll be putting it in my yard soon.  You can see what else uses Bloodberry as a nectar plant on my nectar plants page on Bloodberry. Enjoy the photos. I'm still looking for eggs, a caterpillar, or a chrysalis to photograph and will update this page if I find those or get better pictures of another Red Admiral Butterfly.

These photos of a Red Admiral Butterfly were all taken in Palm Beach or Broward County in South Florida. I'm still looking for a caterpillar to photograph and post, so check back later to see if I found one.

No caterpillars yet, but this elderly Red Admiral landed right in front of me this week. I'm SO glad I had my camera with me! I got a couple of nice photos, and then it flew off so fast I lost track of it. These butterflies tend to do that...

This view really illustrates why I call this Red Admiral Butterfly elderly; scales are missing and the right wing is torn and tattered.

I was fortunate enough to observe a Red Admiral laying an egg this past weekend. The egg is the green ball in the middle of this Pellitory leaf:

I'll work on better photos of the egg, and of course I'll update with caterpillar and chrysalis photos as I get them.

Update:

Well... I found the hatched egg, but I never figured out where the caterpillar went, so I'll keep my eyes open for another egg and try again. (Darn!)