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Eastern Tiger Swallowtails
Red Banded Hairstreak
Spicebush SWT
Not a butterfly cat!
Spicebush Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Tomato Hornworm
Common Pug
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Black-Lined Lemon Moth
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Sachem Skipper, female
Least Skipper
Sootywing and Silver-Spotted
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Broad-Winged Skipper
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Common Pug
Black Swallowtail, female
Variegated Fritillary
Yellow bear
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Common Pug
Monarch, female
Snowberry Clearwing Moths
Scallopwing moth
The Asteroid
Virginia Tiger moths
Red Spotted Purple
Black Swallowtail, female
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail cat
Snowberry Clearwing moth
Black Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail, female
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, female
Monarchs
Long-Tailed Skipper
Red Spotted Purple
Red Spotted Purple egg
Monarch cat
Spicebush Swallowtail, male
Red Admiral
Cloudywing skipper cat
Summer Azure
Viceroy
Variegated Fritillary
Red Spotted Purples
Red Spotted Purple
Gray Hairstreak
American Lady butterfly hindwing
Monarchs on Tithonia
Zebra Swallowtail cat on Pawpaw
Eastern Comma butterfly
Monarchs on their host plant
Eight-Spotted Forester moth
Summer Azure
Question Mark butterfly
Red Spotted Purple
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, female
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, male
Monarch

Butterflies and Moths

Raising Butterflies

The sad fact is that most Monarch caterpillars never make it to adult butterfly. I raise them inside where it is safe, in plastic shoe boxes, and it has been one of the most profound and inspirational things I have ever done. 

 

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