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These female Atala Butterflies are laying eggs on
Coontie, their
host plant.
Aaah, there it's getting a refreshing sip from the Bloodberry Bush flower:
Atala Larvae (caterpillar):
Atala Butterflies nectar on palm flowers (above, left, and below). In
the photo above, you can see the Atalas' proboscis in the flower.
I liked the green bee in the photo above. I've seen them around, but they're usually buzzing by too fast to get a good picture. This one paused for a snack on the palm flowers too.
When you have nectar plants, like this palm tree, you will see your butterflies sip nectar from them, but you'll have other visitors like the green bee as well.
Atala about to nectar on Bloodberry:
Atala nectaring on Fiddlewood:
My apologies for the quality of this next photograph, but there they
were doing you know what and the only thing I had on me was a crummy old
cell phone camera.
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main nectar plants page to see what
other butterflies are sipping from, or to go back
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