Thanks everyone!! The bottle bug eyes are large flat glass beads with round beads glued to them. The wings were each metal leaves attached to a 99cent candle holder at a local closeout store. They were flimsily attached with a tack weld so i figured they'd be easy to pull off and repurpose as wings.

It's a female tiger swallowtail, yellow form. There's also a black form female - they're more common than the yellow females in my area. Congrats! She's quite a beauty! MissSherry

Those are beautiful pictures, Christie - your zinnias are always the prettiest ones! I love the Scarlet Flame and the Zowie - I may have been the one who recommended Yowie Zowie, because it was real popular with the butterflies the year I had it. As long as your zinnias have those yellow thingies in the center, they'll be butterfly friendly. I bought three un-named zinnia plants this past spring that made red flowers - in the heat of summer, the blooms are orange. They've only grown to be about 2' tall, and they spill over the bed they're planted in, so they're probably one of the mounding types. They're especially popular with the gulf and variegated frits, common checkered skippers, and various other skippers. I didn't plant Mexican sunflowers this year, which look like another type of zinnia to me, because I used their space for the mounding zinnias. This picture of them was taken in spring, when the blooms were more red than orange, and before they grew so thick - Looking at this variegated fritillary reminds me of the one that's been visiting the garden for the past several days. She's been going through the motions of egg-laying on the violets - the passionvines are full of gulf frits. I say she's been going through the motions, because I went right behind her and couldn't find an egg! Maybe she's just practicing! :/ Sherry

Beautiful Minrose! Especially that first one. I've only visited the butterfly house in St. Louis. I loved seeing the tropical butterflies and plants. My kids were little and still remember it. I think having the butterflies land on them makes a big impression.