After yesterday's Holly blue, today it was the turn of the actual target species. This beautiful female brimstone butterfly spent a long time in the garden flitting around the alder buckthorn (easier to see on lilac). #PlantItAndTheyWillCome @savebutterflies.bsky.social @iolowilliams.bsky.social

#TinyFlowerTuesday
Some tiny CA native flowers in my front yard
#ShowyMilkweed
#Lupine
#CoralBells #WhiteSage
#CANativePlants
#pollinatorgardens
#butterflyhabitat
#CertifiedMonarchWaystation
#PlantItAndTheyWillCome
#gardenSky 🌱 #gardening

Quite a few of these tiny Scabious Longhorn (Nemophora metallica) moths around on our Scabious flowers at the moment.
DYK? The male has antennae three times the length of the forewings!
#MothsMatter #PlantItAndTheyWillCome

Love the shape of Red Columbine! It is also well loved by hummingbirds. #gardening #plantitandtheywillcome

Thank you! I’ll share pics of the plants and the critters throughout the seasons
Both my front and back yard are 60-65% native plants and they’re coming out of dormancy so soon many flowers 🐝🐞🦋
Good vibes to you as well on your journey and mission!
#plantitandtheywillcome
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My gardens are a Certified Monarch Butterfly Waystation, and a Certified Wildlife Habitat 🌱🦋 the biodiversity in my yards is an amazing gift from nature! I’m passionate about this and sharing the importance of #plantingnatives
#pollinatorhabitat
#plantitandtheywillcome
#supportwildlife
#naturelover

Painted Lady butterflies in my garden for #InsectThursday
#pollinatorgardens
#gardening #gardenSky 🌱
#butterflies #PaintedLady
#bloomscrolling
#PlantItAndTheyWillCome
#naturelover

Two more CA Pipevine Swallowtails eclosed today
This one found its host plant, (CA Pipevine) right away
It was wonderful to see the two find each other after release
#canativeplants #pipevine
#butterflies #nativespecies
#pollinatorgatdens #insects #gardening
#plantitandtheywillcome

Painted Lady butterfly in my garden nectaring on CA Pearly Everlasting
#pollinatorgardens #CaNativePlants #plantnative
#gardenSky🌱 #gardening
#butterflies #paintedlady
#PlantItAndTheyWillCome
#giftsofnature
#bloomscrolling

Just a few bees sleeping in on a lazy Sunday morning. Two-spotted longhorn? #NPSOT #plantitandtheywillcome

Seeing bees buzzing between flowers in my garden brings me joy!

#PlantItAndTheyWillCome

In the latest in a seemingly daily butterfly series of #PlantItAndTheyWillCome I arrived home to find a speckled wood laying eggs on the long grass. #NoMowSummer #NoMowMay @savebutterflies.bsky.social