Here’s a monarch butterfly enjoying some yellow orchids. This shot was taken several years ago at Daniel Stowe Gardens in Belmont during their All’s A-Flutter show.

Monarch butterfly on yellow orchids.  This butterfly shot was taken at Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont during their Something's A-Flutter exhibit in October 2009.

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Here’s a pretty butterfly on a Chinese Abelia bush. They love this bush!

Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on Chinese Abelia

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Here’s a video of swallowtails feeding on salt and minerals from the rocks and gravel.

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I’ve always had flowers and plants that attract butterflies and my flowers are doing great. BUT, where are the butterflies?? I haven’t seen many at all this year.

If you know anything or are experiencing the same thing, please comment.

Pretty swallowtail enjoys the spring phlox blooms

This shot was taken in the NC mountains this spring.

A swallowtail on purple phlox.

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Small orange petunias in my new shoe planter. Butterfly checking it out!

Shoe Planter

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Relaxing on some yellow orchids. Another from Daniel Stowe’s Something’s A-Flutter.

Go to my SmugMug gallery for more butterfly photos.

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Daniel Stowe’s Something’s A-Flutter

Go to my SmugMug gallery for more butterfly photos.

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These butterflies were getting ready to mate. Pretty neat to watch.

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These two were on my purple spider flowers today. Pretty neat to catch this.

More butterfly photos are here.

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