Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The life of a butterfly

We are lucky enough to have some beautiful butterflies in the yard which have "allowed" us to photograph them. One monarch even let us watch her lay her eggs on our milkweed plant. Here are some pictures that were taken of a few different kinds of butterflies we have and the stages of their lives (minus the cocoons because we can't seem to find any!).

Monarch butterfly:
This is one of the eggs on a milkweed plant.






Part 2: the caterpillar



This is the mamma butterfly.



Gulf fritillary (passion flower butterfly):
Egg




Caterpillar



Ken took this one...maybe this pic should have come first! ;-)
 We're not sure what kind of butterfly this is. It only stayed in our yard for a few minutes.







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