{"id":2308,"date":"2007-11-04T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T20:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2017-07-19T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T00:19:03","slug":"tiger-swallowtail-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-critters\/tiger-swallowtail-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still lots of butterflies in the garden. I’ve seen a couple of Monarchs, though not on the milkweed but on the orange cosmos which seem to be the favorite plant of all types of butterflies.<\/p>\n

When Margaret and I visited the butterfly garden at the Natural Gardener last week, the blue mistflower was by far the most popular butterfly plant. A hundred butterflies must have been hovering about. Neither of us had ever seen so many butterflies in one spot before. It looked more like an anime than real life; a sad commentary on how little life we are used to seeing in our modern world.<\/p>\n

I rarely see a yellow Tiger Swallowtail in my garden. Usually I see females in their dark black and blue phase (unless those are black swallowtails–I’m not very good at butterfly identification; my eyes just can’t focus quickly enough). So this was a special treat. It was huge, by far the largest butterfly I’ve seen around here.
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