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A kaleidoscope of Skipper butterflies on pink zinnias for #InsectThursday Three Fiery Skippers and one Grass Skipper. 🥰 If you didn’t know, a group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope, similar to a herd of deer. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy #InsectThursday A beautiful male Spicebush Swallowtail on Joe-Pye Weed flowers. Butterflies and bees love Joe-Pye Weed. It’s a great perennial to add to your garden. They get 6’ tall. Baby Joe gets 3’ tall. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

And for my favorite photo today… A gorgeous female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Black form) on Joe-Pye Weed. The sunlight illuminated her like the angel she is. Note the bumblebee in the background that she towers over. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies🦋 #Swallowtails #BloomScrolling🌻 #GardenStrolling 🌱

Butterfly season is really kicking in to high gear in late July…and August and September are even better butterfly months. Yay! A beautiful Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly on a pink zinnia. 🧡💛🤍🩷 #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋

Mates🧡💛 Variegated Fritillary butterflies in the zinnia patch. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋

A gorgeous female Black Swallowtail on a pink zinnia today. 🖤💙🩷 #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

Great example of how massive female Eastern Tiger Swallowtails are. Here is the black form of a Tiger sharing Joe-Pye Weed flowers with a male Spicebush Swallowtail. He is large too but not compared to her. 3.5” wingspan vs. 5.5”. 🖤💙🧡 #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

How about a tiny, tiny Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly (Cupido comyntas) on a tiny peppermint flower spike. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋

Another photo of a beautiful male Black Swallowtail on our Garden Phlox from a few days ago. 🖤💛💙🧡🩷 #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

A message of sharing from the Variegated Fritillary and Skipper butterflies. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋

A beautiful male Spicebush Swallowtail on an orange zinnia this morning. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

Last post today… An absolutely stunning male Black Swallowtail on Garden Phlox this morning. His markings are practically glowing. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

A pair of tiny Grey Hairstreak butterflies on peppermint flowers for #MacroMonday I believe the top one is the male and the bottom one is the female. Females are predominantly larger than males in the butterfly world. So cute 🥰 #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies🦋

Brought out the Macro Lens this evening. Black Swallowtail caterpillar munching on Fennel. They blend so well with the stems and flowers. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails #MacroMonday

I have never seen this before. One of our Echinacea has weird sprouts coming out the flower cones. I researched it and evidently it is a severe plant disease called Asters Yellow. It is caused by a phytoplasma organism spread by tiny insects called leafhoppers. Dig it up. More details in alt.

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Red-spotted Purple butterfly perched along the edge of the woods. 💙🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Happy Sunday from a stunning female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on our Lantana this morning. She is the black form which accounts for about half of the female population of Tigers. She is enormous at over 5” wingspan. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

Color… A beautiful male Pipevine Swallowtail in the Zinnia patch. #Photography99 📷 #GardenStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

Soaring under a Blue Sky… Female Black Swallowtail #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails