Showing posts with label red admiral butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label red admiral butterfly. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Not a monarch

A couple weeks ago I found this little butterfly on my sedum bush. It's a Red Admiral. I think sometimes people confuse them with monarchs because of their wing color on the top side, but the wings are distinctly different underneath.


See? Not at all like a monarch (see yesterday's post).


Okay, let's see the other side of those wings.


C'mon... you can do better than that...


Better... better....


There we go! Similar in color, but actually very different in design.


This little butterfly has a long way to go, too. They winter in southern Texas.

Incidentally, my sedum has progressed a lot since then. Here's what it looked like yesterday morning:


It was just full of little ground bees.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Red Admiral

I guess he thought he was a hummingbird. :-) But really he's a Red Admiral butterfly. He did seem to like the sugar water, and he kept coming back for more. Rather pretty, isn't he?

(Click to enlarge.)

Oh, yeah... Willow 'n Wispy really enjoyed watching him. And no, he did not fall into the container of water. ;-)