The Butterfly Dunes

A photographic journal of a Central Florida wildlife habitat created for butterflies, caterpillars, bees, hummingbirds, and other insects that inhabit this area.

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I am a gardener in Florida who maintains a wildlife habitat to sustain butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, birds, and insects. Host plants are grown to sustain butterfly caterpillars for this area. Flowers are grown to provide nectar for pollinators.

Different Black Swallowtail Butterflies in Central FL that can easily be confused.

There are a quite a few butterflies in this area that contain a lot of black coloring.

Male Pipevine has a bright metallic blue coloring pictured on red Pentas.
Female Pipevine on the left side is a dull dark blue, almost entirely black. Male on the right. Pictured on Joe Pye Weed in North Carolina.
Male Pipevine Swallowtails puddling for minerals prior to mating.
Male Spicebush. Distinguished by the teal coloring on the bottom.

Female Spicebush Swallowtail

Palamedes Swallowtail, distinguished by the yellow oval striping from the top of both wings.
Dark morph female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.
Both are Eastern Tiger Swallowtails. The one on the left is a dark morph variety.
Eastern Black Swallowtails, male on top, female on bottom. Such a good shot because they just eclosed from their chrysalises on this succulent. The host plant was growing in a pot under the shelf.
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