This summer has been a banner season for butterflies and other pollinators. It was well underway in May, when these photos were taken. For a 7-minute slideshow complete with sound, click on:
The song is, "Butterfly's Day Out," from the Applachia Waltz CD featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor - so be sure your speakers are on.
The fritillaries in the video were very skittish, never giving me quite enough time to focus. When I returned with my camera to the garden in mid-August they were coming to the end of their run and were much more lethargic. In August there were plenty of zebra longwings, swallowtails, and sulfurs to give my shutter speed a run for its money - that slideshow will be out in the fall. But while you are watching "Spring" notice the fritillary caterpillar on its favorite host plant, the purple passionflower.
For future reference, if you want to play this slideshow again, it has a permanent home on our Awards and Projects page, on the right sidebar in SPRING 2014 IN THE GARDEN.
And here are two Resources you might want to investigate: Roses for Florida and The Name of the Rose.
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