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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ~Richard Bach

Pictures of Butterflies

Photos of Swallowtails, Monarchs, Sulphurs and more.

Photos of Monarch Butterflies, Tiger Swallowtails, Common Buckeyes, Painted Ladies, Hummingbird Moths, butterflies mating plus Garden Spiders, bumble bees and more. See the Butterfly Gallery here.


July 2011 Where are the butterflies?? If you have an answer or are experiencing the same thing, please visit my blog and comment.

http://jillwlang.com/blog1/2011/07/06/where-are-the-butterflies/


Pretty swallowtail enjoys the spring phlox blooms

Swallowtail on springtime purple phlox

Swallowtails enjoying the purple phlox in springtime (soft focus effect)

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Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on Chinese Abelia

Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly on Chinese Abelia

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Monarch on Zinnia

Beautiful monarch butterfly on an orange zinnia

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne

Monarch Butterfly enjoying the Zinnias!

Monarch that is enjoying these zinnias

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on White Butterfly Bush

Swallowtail on white butterfly bush in bloom

Monarch Butterfly on Orange Zinnia

Monarch on an orange zinnia bloom. These are great for attracting butterflies, especially the orange color.

Monarch on Zinnia flowers

Monarch Butterfly

Orange Zinnias

Monarch on Lantana

Monarch with his wings spread enjoying the verbena


Video of Tiger Swallowtail on Purple Butterfly Bush

If you want to attract butterflies, plant a Butterfly Bush.

Tiger Swallowtail on Orange Mexican Sunflower

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Monarch on Yellow Orchids

Monarch Butterfly on Yellow Orchids

Flowers That Attract Butterflies

  • Milkweed (Butterfly Weed)
  • Aster
  • Blanket Flower
  • Shasta Daisy
  • Coreopsis
  • Lantana
  • Cosmos
  • Purple Coneflower (Echinacea)
  • Joe Pye Weed
  • Zinnia
  • Mexican Sunflower
  • Verbena
  • Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on Zinnias

    Pale Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

    Butterflies represent:

    • Change and transformation
    • Freedom
    • Human spirit/soul
    • Joy and hope
    • Beauty
    • Rebirth and growth
    • "Out with the old and in with the new"
    • The resurrection and the cocoon resembles the tomb

    Painted Lady Butterfly on Lantana

    Painted Lady Butterfly on Lantana

    Sulphur butterflies mating

    Sulphur Butterflies Mating

    Picture of a Hummingbird Moth

    Hummingbird Moth