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Lauren's Butterfly Garden
Lauren's Butterfly Garden
Butterfly Photographs - Houston, Texas
Beautiful, large, female Monarch butterfly landing on our Butterfly Bush.
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at noon time.
Monarch Butterfly on our Butterfly Bush on October 16, 2024 at 3:30pm
Funereal Duskywing Butterfly on our Butterfly Bush.
Sunday, August 18, 2024 @ 10am.
Peck's Skipper Butterfly was hanging around today, Sunday, August 18, 2024 @ 10am.
(Scientific Name: Polites peckius)
Black Swallowtail Butterfly (Male) in flight today, Friday, July 19, 2024 swirling around our Butterfly Bush! :)
Black Swallowtail Butterfly (male) hanging around our Butterfly Bush this evening at 5:48pm on
Friday, July 19, 2024.
This butterfly looks like a leaf! It's a Question Mark Butterfly! May 1, 2024 @ 5:17pm
Me getting up close and personal with a
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly on our Butterfly Bush. October 13, 2024 (and my daddy's heavenly bday)
Long tailed Skipper Butterfly on our Butterfly Bush. Sunday, August 18, 2024 @ 10am.
Peacock Pansy Butterfly holding onto our window screen just above Lauren's Butterfly Garden! I am so thankful for Google Image technology; without it I would have never known what species this was! I was surprised to learn that she is found in Cambodia and South Asia, now, what it was doing in Houston, Texas is baffling! She/he visited on June 30, 2024 @ 9:46pm.
We had a new visitor today! A Stemorrhages costate (Fabricius, 1794) moth. Such a quick species with translucent wings, it was beautiful to watch!
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 7:15pm.
Dorsal view of the Question Mark Butterfly - I love how it has a white outline, really makes it pop! April 19, 2024 @ 5:31pm
Newly emerged Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly (Female) on March 5, 2024.
Checkered White Butterfly (Pontia protodice) hanging out on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Red Admiral Butterfly on our Butterfly Bush on Friday, April 18, 2024.
Spicebush Caterpillar on January 6, 2024.
Male Monarch Butterly on our famous Butterfly Bush, Wednesday, April 24, 2024.
Two Red Admiral Butterflies sipping on nectar from our Butterfly Bush April 18, 2024.
Gulf Fritilary sipping on the butterfly bush Nov.2, 2023
Awesome shot of this Gulf Fritilary Butterfly on our butterfly bush! October 13, 2022.
Beautiful shot of this Monarch Butterfly sipping on nectar. November 4, 2022 and just look at them clouds!
Common Buckeye Butterfly on our butterfly bush, May 4, 2023
"May the 4th be with you!"
Red Admiral Butterfly on our butterfly bush. April 21, 2023.
Gulf Fritillary coming in for a landing on our Passion Flower Vine! And yes, she laid an
egg. Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
Gulf Fritillary and its shadow hanging out on our butterfly bush. I have notice that this plant is their favorite - as in all butterflies!
Screenshot of my entry to Frost Bank which was on display for all customers to see on Friday, September 16, 2022.
A Gulf Fritilary sipping on some Cone Flowers in the garden. Tuesday morning, July 26, 2022.
We had 3 different butterfly species visit our garden within a 2-hour window on Friday, June 17, 2022 from 7 to 9 a.m.
Gulf Fritilary sipping on a Zinnia in our garden at 8:40 a.m. Friday, June 17, 2022
Spicebush Swallowtail sipping on our Butterfly Bush at 9:09 a.m.
Friday, June 17, 2022.
Spicebush Swallowtail flying around the cinnamon camphora tree on
May 15, 2022.
Giant Swallowtail sipping nectar from our Phlox flowers early Tuesday morning,
April 5, 2022.
Giant Swallowtail hanging out for 55 minutes on our grassless patch of yard!
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Long Tailed Skipper on Echinacea flower. Saturday, October 30, 2021.
Giant Swallowtail on our Lantana!
Saturday, July 17, 2021 @ 2p.m.
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Spicebush Swallowtail on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, after emerging.
This Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly was about to land on our baby Cinnamomum Camphora tree to lay an egg, Sunday, March 21, 2021 @ 4pm
Here is my daughter, Rita, watching a Monarch flutter around in our yard at 7:19 a.m. on Friday, June 17, 2022.
Monarch Butterfly sipping on Cosmos at 7:20 a.m. Friday, June 17, 2022.
Giant Swallowtail sipping from our butterfly bush on Sunday, June 12, 2022.
Monarch caterpillar on our Milkweed. Wednesday morning, April 6, 2022.
Male Monarch on our newly planted Butterfly Bush. Saturday, October 30, 2021.
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly on Dianthus flower. Saturday, October 30, 2021.
First time ever that a Giant Swallowtail hangs around and lets me capture it sipping nectar in our yard! Saturday, July 17, 2021
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Dorsal view of this beautiful Spicebush Swallowtail on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
This is a fellow Spicebush caterpillar that I rescued on March 29, 2021 when it was about 3 weeks old. Pictured here, it is almost 6 weeks old on Saturday, April 17, 2021.
The freshly laid Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly egg on Sunday, March 21, 2021 @ 4:10p.m.
Found this female Monarch on our driveway today, Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 1:05p.m. She is still alive, but her hind legs are missing and her wings look scratched up, poor gal :(
Blue Butterfly plant (Clerodendrum ugandense) with beautiful blue-violet petals, taken on December 4, 2020. Gift from Lauren's mommy, Shannon :)
Lauren's tree located at First Christian Church near Rice University. I was so happy to see that they put Christmas lights on it :) Photo taken on December 9, 2020.
Lauren's cousin, Rita, with a lovely Monarch Butterfly roosting on her head!
April 1, 2020.
Found ya!!! One of the first Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly eggs on our baby Cinnamomum camphora tree. Tuesday, March 24, 2020.
First time a Common Buckeye Butterfly has visited our yard :)
Or rather, the first time I've witnessed one in our yard! Such a beautiful creature :)
Photographed on Friday, October 12, 2018, sipping from our Lantana flowers.
This little guy hatched on Monday night or Tuesday morning back on March 29 or 30th. Here it is on Saturday, April 17, 2021 at almost 3 weeks old :)
We have young Milkweed plants all along the west side of our yard - January 23, 2021
Our Passion Flower Vine is re-growing just fine after the lawn guy chopped it down to the roots! Photo taken on November 24, 2020.
A Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar on our Passion Flower Vine, November 24, 2020.
Daniel, Lauren's big brother, holding his first Monarch Butterfly on April 1, 2020.
Me, caressing a Monarch caterpillar, photo taken by my daughter, Rita :) on Tuesday, March 24, 2020.
Smaller caterpillar on a milkweed leaf, dangling.
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Here I am releasing our first Long-tailed Skipper, September 19, 2018 - it is in flight to the right of my hand, and look at that blue between its wings!!!
My first Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly!!! September 4, 2018.
Lauren's dad, Fernando, releasing his first Monarch Butterfly. September 1, 2018.
Thanks Troi Davis, for taking such a great picture of this male Monarch Butterfly, it was so big! Tuesday, August 15, 2018.
My first Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar at 12 days old on August 4, 2018.
Long-tailed Skipper right before it fluttered away, September 19, 2018.
Here is the male Monarch Butterfly we released on Tuesday, August 15, 2018 - up, up, up in the sky!!!
Here I am, about to release a Gulf Fritillary that emerged today, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 :)
Still can't believe it let me hold her/him!
Monarch Butterfly laying an egg at 1:40p.m. Sunday, July 22, 2018.
Finally, our first Monarch this year :) Sunday, July 22, 2018.
Super excited to have witnessed this Spicebush Swallowtail egg being laid on a Camphor Laurel Tree leaf (Cinnamomum camphora), July 20, 2018.
Many thanks go out to fellow NABA members: Penny Stritch & Margy Stewart for helping me to identify this female Common Checkered Skipper :) Still need help figuring out what kind of plant it's on. Sunday, July 22, 2018.
Spicebush Swallowtail with its shadow at 2 p.m., Friday, July 20, 2018. Looking for it's "host" plant! This Camphor Laurel Tree is just months old, but we hope that it will grow to be 30ft tall like the one next door on the west side of our yard!
Gray Hairstreak Butterfly hanging out on some Mulberry Weed in the garden. Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Thanks to fellow NABA member, Charles Allen in Louisiana, for helping me to identify this plant!
Black Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly on the Lantana. June 6, 2018.
I'd like to thank fellow NABA member, Ed Perry for helping me to correctly identify this little lady here as a Whirlabout Skipper on our Lantana! June 2018.
Pearl Crescent Butterfly in our backyard on a white Dianthus flower - Monday, June 11, 2018
Whirlabout Skipper on the Lantana. June 5, 2018. Thanks to fellow NABA member, Mike Rickard in Mission, TX for the correct identification of this little guy here!
This morning I am the proud guardian of 2 Monarch Butterflies!!! November 8, 2017.
WOW!!! Our 2nd Monarch Butterfly emerged at 8:32a.m. Wednesday, November 8, 2017.
My first two Monarch Chrysalis' at 5 days old on Friday, November 3, 2017.
October 20, 2017 - Four Gulf Fritillary caterpillars at 7 days old, munching on a Passion Flower vine leaf.
Thanks go out to fellow NABA members: Miriam Pickens & Sue Barnett for letting me know that this little guy was not a moth, but a type of "Dusky Wing Skipper Butterfly" on our green beans, taken July 31, 2017.
I don't know what type of moth this might be? Watched it fly towards me and land on our back door at 5:20a.m. May 9, 2018.
Taken July 6, 2017 - Spicebush Swallowtail in Houston, Texas.
Thanks so much to fellow NABA member, Frank Model, for helping me to correctly identify some of my butterflies :)
Black Swallowtail Butterfly on our Night Blooming Jasmine. June 24, 2018.
October 10, 2017 - Monarch Butterfly egg we witnessed being laid on our Milkweed at 3:30p.m. :)
October 19, 2017, one of two Monarch caterpillars on a Milkweed branch at 5 days old.
Went outside to collect fresh Passion Flower vine leaves for my caterpillars and found this little guy munching away! October 24, 2017.
My "inside" Gulf Fritillary caterpillars at 2 weeks - October 26, 2017.
Found a "hitchhiker" caterpillar on the Milkweed branch I had already cut off - I always inspect the branch when walking inside looking for aphids, tiny spiders & any other pest that might be hanging out on the leaves. October 25, 2017
Long-tailed Skipper taken July 13, 2017 in Houston, TX.
Monarch Butterfly taken on the milkweed, May 25, 2017 in Houston, TX.
October 24, 2017 Monarch caterpillars on a Milkweed branch at 10 days old. Bottom, right side caterpillar has just shed.
Long-tailed Skipper taken July 13, 2017 in Houston, TX.
Spicebush Swallowtail on a Camphor Laurel Tree in Houston, TX - taken May 23, 2017.
Giant Swallowtail in flight over our Male Naranjo Shrub - July 19, 2017.
Giant Swallowtail with part of it's lower right wing missing - stationary on our Male Naranjo Shrub - July 19, 2017.
*Correction* This tree is not a Black Gum, Tupelo Tree, after much research, I found that it is, in fact, a Camphor Laurel Tree (Cinnamomum camphora). Two Spicebush Swallowtails hanging around the Camphor Laurel Tree on July 26, 2017, what a sight!!!
Monarch Butterfly on May 25, 2017.
Spicebush Swallowtail in flight! May 25, 2017.
Clouded Skipper Caterpillars on our green bean plant. November 2017.
A large Monarch sipping on our Milkweed :) Tuesday, November 7, 2017.
Many thanks go out to fellow NABA member, Ed Perry, for helping me and identifying these eggs & caterpillars as Clouded Skippers on our green bean plant. We found about 6 caterpillars "hiding" yesterday, Tuesday, November 7, 2017.
Spicebush Swallowtail enjoying the Milkweed :) July 26, 2017.
Thanks go out to fellow NABA member, Jack Singleton, for helping me to identify this Female Monarch on our Milkweed - both pics taken August 2, 2017 after the rain.
Photos by Daniel Rocha, my nephew :) taken Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - I didn't think Monarchs would still be in Houston in August??? This was a real treat during a light rain!!!
Wow! Gulf Fritillary laying an egg! August 11, 2017.
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly laying eggs on our Passion Flower Vine - Friday, August 11, 2017.
Eggs - Two: one on each of the two tendrils pictured - laid by a Gulf Fritillary Butterfly on the Passion Flower vine! August 11, 2017.
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