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Abaeis nicippe
Small yellow butterfly of the pieridae family.
Semi rural wildlife habitat.
Getting stuck in to the bee balm (Monarda) in our butterfly garden.
Spotted on Jul 8, 2012
Submitted on Jul 8, 2012
3 Comments
I plant dill for the Black Swallowtails. I've seen two adults so far this year. No caterpillars yet.
Thank you Keith! We are incredibly blessed with wildlife here, although we have made a lot of changes to our landscaping to make it more wildlife friendly. We even had black swallowtail caterpillars on our newly planted fennel which was only about 6" tall - they stripped it bare but it seems to be recovering now! I'm beginning to realize "if you plant it, they will come!"
I wish I had easy access to your incredible level of biodiversity.