So you're crazy about butterflies and want to know more about what you'll see in Tucson.  You'll find a link below that will help you identify a number of butterflies observed in Tucson.  We have several great local resources from not only the Tucson Botanical Gardens, but from Desert Connections, and the Desert Museum.  This link will help you get started with our Sonoran Desert friends that visit during our hot monsoon season.
Here's a shot I took last year during the summer.  I was working on this blog and one of the new Swallowtails came to visit:)  This was taken outside my dining room window.

http://www.tucsonbotanical.org/desertconnections/TBG_butterflies.php

SWALLOWTAILS


Pipevine Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail

Giant Swallowtail



WHITES & SULPHURS

Cabbage White

Checkered White

Clouded Sulphur

Orange Sulphur

Southern Dogface

Cloudless Sulphur

Large Orange Sulphur

Sleepy Orange

Mexican Yellow

Boisduval’s Yellow

Dainty Sulphur



GOSSAMER WINGS

Gray Hairstreak

Reakirt’s Blue

Ceraunus Blue

Marine Blue

Western Pygmy-Blue



SNOUTS

American Snout



BRUSH FOOTS

Gulf Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

Elada Checkerspot

Texan Crescent

Mourning Cloak

Painted Lady

West Coast Lady

Red Admiral

Common Buckeye

Tropical Buckeye

Empress Leilia

Monarch

Queen



SKIPPERS

Funereal Duskywing

White Common Checkered-Skipper

Orange Skipperling

Fiery Skipper

Eufala Skipper

Labels: butterflies observed in Tucson, butterflies of Tucson, fritillary, gossamer wings, skipper, snouts, Swallowtail, the brush foots, whites and sulphurs

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Remember the early posting of the "bird droppings" and how I said I didn't have a pic to show them as the butterfly yet?
Well today during my daily journal of the garden, one of them came to visit me at the window where I daydream.  They are all grown up now and flying around the garden today. 
It landed on the bamboo and I think waited for me to get my camera and snap off a couple shots.  I think it stopped by to "thank me" for not squashing it when I found it on my citrus plant. What a wonderful gift!:)

The Swallowtail staring at me from my window.

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So something is eating your citrus bushes and you don't know what it is....you think it's a bird because there are a lot of droppings on the leaves.....

But at closer inspection you discover it's one of the ugliest catepillars alive.

Thanks to the macro feature on my camera I can get close ups like this!! Seriously they are ugly.  Here are recommendations from people about these catepillars.  Caution...don't be quick to pick them off...as you'll see what the end result is in a few moments....

1.  If they are on older larger citrus bushes, don't do anything. 

2.  If they are on younger bushes, they will eat all your leaves....but generally the leaves always grow back. However, some gardeners recommend picking them off.

The little "tongue's" that stick out emit an odor to keep predators away....so this guy didn't like me so much.  The official scientific word is the "osmeterium"....

So the final result?  This pic below was not taken by me but here is what the end result is....but I will get some shots down the road:)

The Swallowtail!!

It is catepillar month in Tucson and butterflies are all over the place.  Keep your eyes on the look out for these guys!  Happy gardening!

Labels: caterpillar, Swallowtail, swallowtail caterpillar

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