Sherry8
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: Anyone know what this little butterfly is? |
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This little butterfly was so interesting to watch...he kept going around in circles on the orange cosmo...He came quite often to my gardens.
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Biita
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have a clue,, but those are awesome pics,, beautiful,, thank you.
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toni
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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It's a Pearl Crescent - Phyciodes tharos.
Various species of Aster are the food of the caterpillar. The male butterfly is an active mud-puddler, so you might consider making some for them next spring.
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Sherry8
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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toni....what do you mean mud puddler? Like a watery mud puddle they go into? I have never heard that before.. Thank you for the identification.
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toni
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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They like small mud puddles, soggy mud where they can suck up nutrients from the soil. They don't like running water, like a fountain or deep water like a birdbath.
You can take a shallow dish, put some soil from the yard in it, add water and sprinkle a little table salt in it. Place it in a sunny spot, maybe put some rocks around it where they can sunbathe after getting a drink.
I have also put some of those bright colored nylon dish scrubbers in a shallow dish of water so they can perch on them without getting in the water.
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glendann
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Wonderful pictures and beautiful butterflys.
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petunia
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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such a pretty butterfly on your cosmos.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Lovely. We have hundreds ot those little cuties here. I use a coarse sand for puddling. 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, my, what lovely colours for my weary eyes. And such a nice butterfly too. Table salt, mud, water - I've got all that, and a dish to put it in. I'll just have to remember doing it come spring.
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