Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Butterflies and Caterpillars
DH is a much better photographer than I am, but don't tell him I said so. We were trying out some of the features on his camera over the weekend, and he got a rare shot of a butterfly on the wing. I believe this is the dark form of the female Tiger Swallowtail, even though it doesn't look exactly like the pictures in my field guide. Other views of the same butterfly are here and here.
I got a nice sharp picture of a Spicebush Swallowtail, and a somewhat blurry picture of a Gray Hairstreak (and if you ask me, all pictures of gray hair[streaks] should be blurry).
I happened to look up after I photographed the hairstreak, and noticed one branch of skeletonized leaves on one of my favorite trees. Anybody know offhand what these caterpillars are? I haven't tried to identify them yet.
Looks like I need to take some pictures of flowers - just about all the ones I've posted lately have been of bugs.
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