My Garden and its Butterflies from Common to Rare :-)

15 years ago

Well. Hi. I have had a butterfly garden for four years and I have many plants that the butterflies here LOVE.

I have:

Plants:

Porterweed( the blue, purple, red, and pink),

Mistflower(blue), Passionvines (at least 7 varieties),

Milkweed ( Tropical Milkweed, Zizotes Milkweed, and the Red Swamp mIlkweed along with the Pink Swamp Milkweed but I am growing some Arizona and Pineneedle Milkweeds from seed along with Butterflyweed and more Milkweed varieties but they are seedlings except the Tropical, Swamp, and Zizotes Milkweeds),

Butterfly Buttons,

Butterfly Bushes,

Sunflowers,

Barbados Cherry,

Potato Plant,

Grapefruit trees,

Valley Lemon tree,

Orange tree,

Tangerine tree,

Pentas ( pink and red and 1 purple and 1 white in a pot), Giant Milkweed tree,

Wild Parsley,

a Peach Tree,

Lantana ( Yellow, Dallas Red, White, Orange, and the creeping Purple),

a Mulberry Tree,

a Plum,

a Vasey Adelia tree,

Welelia,

Hibiscus,

Wild Mallows,

Powder puff tree,

1 small Dutchman's Pipevine,

Esperanza Trees (the yellow ones),

Cortez Croton,

Mexican Flame-vine,

Banana Trees,

a Starfruit Tree,

Green Shrimp Plant,

Ruelia,

Tube Tong,

Runyun's Water willow,

and some weeds that butterflies use as host plants.

Butterflies:

Swallowtails:

Pipevine Swallowtail -common

Black Swallowtail -common( I also saw a weird variation of one)

Giant Swallowtail -common(I have seen tons of caterpillars on my citrus trees)

Whites:

Great Southern White -common

Giant White -uncommon

Checkered White -common

Florida White -uncommon

Sulphurs:

Yellow Angled Sulphur -RARE( stray from Mexico)

White Angled Sulphur -Very Uncommon-Rare(Stray from Mexico)

Orange Barred Sulphur -Uncommon

Cloudless Sulphur -Common

Large Orange Sulphur -Common

Southern Dogface -Common

also a lot of little small Sulphurs I think Danity sulphurs?) -Common?

Lyside Sulphur -Common

and other Sulphurs that I think are common

Leafwings:

Tropical Leafwing -Common

Brushfoots:

Red Admiral -Common

Monarch -Common

Queen -Common

Soldier -Uncommon

Gulf Fritilary

Zebra Longwing

and tons of other Brushfoots butterflies most of which are common

Satyrs:

Carolina Satyr -Common

Metalmarks:

Blue Metalmark - Uncommon (only found in one county in the whole U.S.! -Cameron County,Tx (where I live)

Red Bordered Pixie -Uncommon to occasional

Red Bordered Metalmark -Common

and a few other common ones

Skippers:

Guava Skipper -Uncommon (stray from Mexico)

Brazilion Skipper -Common

Longtailed Skipper -Common

and other Longtailed and Spreadwing Skippers (including the Fiery Skipper)

And TONS of other butterflies! These are just the ones I could remember! :-)

I will get pictures very soon :-)

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William Kelly

6 years ago

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How is the garden growing,Daniel??

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MissSherry
15 years ago
You've got a lot of plants and butterflies, Danny!
Sherry
butterflymomok
15 years ago
Danny,

It sounds like you have a "BF heaven", something we all strive for.

Sandy
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saturniidaebreeder
15 years ago
Wow! I'd love to have a garden like yours... who wouldnt!?
Quite a list you got there!
S.B.
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
Thank-you. I will get pictures ASAP :-)

How do you upload photos here?

Thanks'
Danny
saturniidaebreeder
15 years ago
Danny,
You can make a photobucket account if you dont already have one, upload your pictures to there, then place the HTML code on this and then press preview and you will see the pictures, then post.
S.B.
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
Thank-you
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
I have a website where I post my butterfly pictures.

Here is a link that might be useful: Danny's Butterflies
brandymulvaine
15 years ago
Good job Danny! Awesome pictures!
-B
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
Thank-you :-)
mmqchdygg
15 years ago
Nice looking webpage, and GREAT BF pix!!!
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
Thank-you :-) I am still getting new pictures uploaded when I get chances. I may make a page for my plant pictures.
saturniidaebreeder
15 years ago
Awesome pictures! I love the Brushfoots!
S.B.
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
Thank-you :-) Did you all see the Blue Metalmark on the top of the website. It was on my Tropical Milkweed plant. That butterfly is only found in my county of the entire U.S.! Also if you go into news there is a butterfly photo of what I think is a Harvester. If it is it would be a new county record for my county.
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
There are many butterflies that are considered rare here and to the whole U.S. since they are tropical butterflies from Mexico and they stray to the Rio Grande Valley where I live.
Some include the:

Three Tiger Swallowtail
Polydamas Swallowtail
Ruby-Spotted Swallowtail

and more! These are just the ones I can remember right now. :-)
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
I just put a pond in my garden and I want to make the area around it a butterfly puddling area.
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
I just planted a Senna tree for the Sulphurs. :-)
Oh and I saw a Funeral Duskywing the other day!
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
I will be working on my website and post pictures of plants. I know some of you want to see photos of the RARE butterflies like the Yellow Angled Sulphur!
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
I am working on my website and I will post more butterfly photos soon along with plant photos.
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
I also have a Bleeding Heart Vine. :-)
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
I just saw a Rare Jalapus Duskiywing the other day! :-)
andrevson
15 years ago
Awesome... some many plants and butterflies??that's great haa!!i too have many plants in my garden but no butterflies :(
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
Do you have plants that are nectar sources for butterflies? Where do you live?
cezs12
15 years ago
Hey Danny, congrats you have a lot of butterflies and plants which I ever wanted to have. I'm sure you have a huge garden can you post a picture of it?

Here is a link that might be useful: landscapers utah
Daniel Sanchez
Original Author
15 years ago
Yes. I will get some photos soon. :-) check out the link I left above for some pictures I took of butterflies. :-)
Daniel Sanchez
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15 years ago
I will be hopefully seeing a bunch of butterflies to add to the list now:-)

My Garden and its Butterflies from Common to Rare :-)

William Kelly

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