More Butterflies

If you think birds are difficult to identify, try butterflies!

My list of sightings:
1. Cabbage
2. Comma
3. Common Wood Nymph - feeding on garden phlox
4. Hackberry Butterfly
5. Monarch
6. Mourning Cloak
7. Painted Lady
8. Red Spotted Purple - It was walking around on concrete steppingstone near ginkgo tree (I read their host plants are: apple, quince, wild cherry, hawthorn, and hornbeam. We have all of those.)

9. Skipper - Silver Spotted

10. Sulfur - As one lone sulfur approached the butterfly bush, which was in full bloom and covered with butterflies, it was chased away by the white cabbage butterflies.

11. Viceroy (Kentucky's state butterfly) I've read that while the Viceroy and the Monarch look so identical; at rest, one holds its wings straight up and the other holds its horizontally out to the sides. I don't know if that is true or not; doesn't matter for now I can't remember which does which-a-way.

I'm sure there are others out there to be counted, but these are all my eyes could differentiate.

A fuzzy caterpillar wiggled down a tree.
He wiggled long, he wiggled short, he wiggled right to me.
I put him in a covered box, "Don't go away," I said
But when I looked inside the box, I found a butterfly instead.
I never could have made him, not even if I tried.
'Cause only God in Heaven, can make a butterfly.
(Children's rhyme: author unknown)



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