It has been two weeks since I bought a butterfly bush and up until now it
hasn't been visited by anything. For those past two weeks I've been
constantly looking out the window hoping to see something on it but I never
did. But today when I looked out the window, I saw a monarch butterfly on
the bush. I ran to go get my camera and when I turned it on it said low
battery. So I just took pictures really quickly before the battery ran out
or the butterfly flew away. I was able to get these two pictures before the
butterfly flew away
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrow...elected=475416 . They are not
that great but I'm just happy something visited my plant. Now with new
batteries, I'm ready for it when it comes back.
-Theo

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:26:58 GMT, "Theo" wrote:

It has been two weeks since I bought a butterfly bush and up until now it
hasn't been visited by anything. For those past two weeks I've been
constantly looking out the window hoping to see something on it but I never
did. But today when I looked out the window, I saw a monarch butterfly on
the bush. I ran to go get my camera and when I turned it on it said low
battery. So I just took pictures really quickly before the battery ran out
or the butterfly flew away. I was able to get these two pictures before the
butterfly flew away
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrow...elected=475416 . They are not
that great but I'm just happy something visited my plant. Now with new
batteries, I'm ready for it when it comes back.

I get "This album has been marked as private." Could you de-privatize
it so we can see the pics?

I am now waiting for a black swallowtail 'pillar to cocoon in my
kitchen (in a jar). Went out the other day and found my parsley being
eaten to bare stubs, so I put the caterpillars into a jar with some
more parsley. I did this years ago and produced several pretty
butterflies.

Coincidentally, I also saw my first Monarch of the season yesterday
flying below an upstairs window. Camera too far away and butterfly too
fast. I understand *their* favorite plant is milkweed, and I wouldn't
mind growing some for them. After all, I'm not going to compete for
milkweed the way I do for parsley (and dill). :-)

Sorry about that. I made the album public now. It must be interesting to
watch the caterpillars go through their life cycle in the jar.
-Theo

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:08:07 GMT, "Theo" wrote:

Sorry about that. I made the album public now. It must be interesting to
watch the caterpillars go through their life cycle in the jar.

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrow...elected=475416

Nice pictures. I checked the Swallowtail and he/she has now pupated(?)
on one of the sticks I left in the jar. I bought a BIG plastic jar of
pretzels and will empty (one way or another :-) and transfer the
chrysalis there so it won't bang around when it emerges.

http://www.aa6g.org/Butterflies/anise.html has pictures of another
variety of Swallowtail in various stages.

Thank you. That's a nice looking butterfly. Can you take some pictures of
yours so we can see. Have fun chowing down on those pretzels.
-Theo

This year, I planted some Tithonias and we now have at least 2 monarch
butterflies and other butterflies. Some are beautiful. Other flowers attr=
act the
other butterflies but the monarch butterflies are definitely attracted mo=
re by
the Tithonias.

Fran=E7oise.

Theo wrote:

It has been two weeks since I bought a butterfly bush and up until now =
it
hasn't been visited by anything. For those past two weeks I've been
constantly looking out the window hoping to see something on it but I n=
ever
did. But today when I looked out the window, I saw a monarch butterfly=
on
the bush. I ran to go get my camera and when I turned it on it said lo=
w
battery. So I just took pictures really quickly before the battery ran=
out
or the butterfly flew away. I was able to get these two pictures befor=
e the
butterfly flew away
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrow...ected=3D475416 . They ar=
e not
that great but I'm just happy something visited my plant. Now with new=

batteries, I'm ready for it when it comes back.
-Theo