Butterfly Gardening Blog

The wild violets that grow in our yard – Viola sororia are host plants for the Variegated Fritillary – I had one lay a bunch of eggs on them last year! Unfortunately, I’ve been very bad and have not added the pictures of the eggs or caterpillars to my site yet. Anyway, these violets were blooming very nicely when I took these pictures.

Here are a couple pictures of one of my spicebushes when they were blooming. Unfortunately, I can’t, or at least can’t figure out how to, get the small flowers in focus with our digital camera.

Spicebushes are, of course, one of the host plants used by the Spicebush Swallowtail.