Your Pictures of Butterflies

Butterfly Kisses  (click on photo to enlarge)
Butterfly Kisses is my garden's name. It is a memorial garden for my two younger sisters that passed away unexpectedly 18 ...

Just Emerged Black Swallowtail Butterfly  10 minutes after "breaking out"....

Karen says
Beautiful photo of newly emerged Black Swallowtail! It looks like the plant is Rue. I haven't had ...

Monarch Chrysalis on Bike  In Autumn we have to keep our eyes open. In our monarch butterfly garden the caterpillars go where they like - like on my bike!

Blue Butterfly  Taken at a local park in Edinburg Texas.

Karen says
Lovely picture! Is that a Pipevine Swallowtail? We don't have them up here in Minnesota.

Two Black Swallowtail Chrysalis  I work in a private school and we love watching swallowtail caterpillars. I always put a smooth stick and a rough stick in the cage -- if the caterpillar ...

Long-tailed Skipper  I shot it today, 11/25/09.
Long-tailed skipper.

Monarch on Tropical Milkweed  This monarch was photographed Nov. 4, 2009 (yesterday). All the butterfly weeds have gone to seed, but the tropical milkweeds are still setting blossoms....

Giant Swallowtail Chrysalis #2 arrival  Both of Giant Swallowtails arrived on the same day. I was so lucky to be home when all of the excitement started.

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly Just out of the chrysalis  Chrysalis time was 8 days.

Giant Swallowtail Caterpillars 
This photo shows both caterpillars at about 7 days old.

Monarch Transformation  I took these photos in July of 2009. When one of the caterpillars got fairly large, I brought her inside for the rest of the journey since I had watched ...

Zebra Swallowtail in Jackson County Florida  These zebras are plentiful from June to September.

From eggs to just released Giant Swallowtail Butterfly  I just happened to be standing close to a Florida Orange tree at a friends house and I noticed a Giant Swallowtail landing on each leaf and flying to next ...

Stanley the monarch  Stanley was found by my son on a golf course. He turned into a beautiful butterfly. We are currently raising 5 monarch caterpillars now!

- Jodi...

New Swallowtail  Swallowtail emerges on a house plant.

Gulf Fritillary in Ft. Lauderdale  June 21, 95 degree day, caught this one going from flower to flower of the salvia plants.

White Peacock and fly  There was an abundance of mushrooms growing in my lawn last year and I wanted to get some pictures of them. While shooting some pictures, a butterfly ...

Gray Hairstreak Butterfly Photo  This picture of a Gray Hairstreak Butterfly was taken early one morning at a local park in Edinburg Texas.

Red Admiral Butterfly Closeup  This picture of a Red Admiral Butterfly was taken in Choke Canyon State Park.

European Swallowtail  Waiting for the other chrysalis to pop...

The Monarch Butterfly  Monarch butterflies are the most beautiful of all butterflies, some say, and are considered the “king” of the butterflies, hence the name “monarch”. There ...

Monarch on its way to Mexico  At Allen Acres in Louisiana, we get a few monarch in late March but all have gone north by the end of April.

They return in Sept and hang around to ...

Tiger Swallowtail
"Hold That Tiger"  We usually have several of these throughout the year as we have toothache trees, hopwafer trees, and citrus trees for the caterpillars. This photo won ...

Gulf Fritillary  A very common butterfly in our gardens at Allen Acres from July to Frost.

A 'Comma' Butterfly  I found this comma in the spring in my garden!

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly Almost ready to go  Within two hours the process is complete.

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly Stretch and fan those wings  Fluid has started filling the wings.