Butterfly Gardening Blog

I just happened to be lucky enough to have the camera with me, get it aimed and in focus for the few seconds this skipper sat still on this flower! There still isn’t a whole lot of flowers blooming yet – I need to get more that bloom in April and May – but the Pin Cushion Flowers/Scabiosa are blooming really nicely now!

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Ok, not the type of eggs you are probably thinking of for Easter!

I found more butterfly eggs on Easter morning – some duskywing eggs on my baptisia plant. Ok, technically, duskwings are skippers, not butterflies, but they’re close enough!

I saw her actually laying the eggs when we were getting ready to leave for my Mom’s on Easter. I saw others on the plant had turned orange already, so likely some eggs had been there for a while already. This is either the first or second year that I’ve had duskywings eggs before. For some reason my mind is blank about if I had them lay eggs here before. I have raised some before though, that I got from someplace else.