Jim Hulsebus Photography

Butterflies are Blooming

Perched on a milkweed blossom, this is the first Giant Swallowtail we have seen this year.

Female Tiger Swallowtail on a cone flower.

Female Tiger Swallowtail on a Lantana.

Another female Tiger Swallowtail. A male lacks the blue spots.

Red Admirals, this one on a cone flower, have been plentiful this year.

A Red Admiral showing the colorful underside of his wing.

Monarch on a cone flower. Cone flowers have been popular with many butterflies this year.

A very large blue black wasp that patrol our garden.

Later in the day one of these wasps had captured a spider.

Where do all the sunflowers go?

All images copyright Jim & Marlene Hulsebus 2007