ButterflyGuy99

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Butterfly Enthusiast and Novice Photographer Joined BlueSky on June 7, 2024

ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:58 UTC

Another Orange Sulphur butterfly in the Rudbeckia flowers. Blends perfectly.

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋 #FlowersOnFriday 💛

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:49 UTC

Misnamed a Red-spotted Purple, in my opinion. Beautiful nonetheless.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

America is a butterfly and Republicans are a pesticide…

#VoteBlue 💙📷

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:51 UTC

Have a great weekend, my friend. Great photos.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:45 UTC

Allez Les Bleus🇫🇷⚽️💙🤍❤️

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:11 UTC

Thank you for posting.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:57 UTC

Buckeye butterfly on Rudbeckia for #FlowersOnFriday

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

Here we go… ⚽️🇫🇷Allez Les Bleus🇫🇷⚽️

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

Thrilled to share my first photo this year of the beautiful Indigo Bunting in a Black Walnut tree for #FeatheredFriday

#Photography99 📷 #Birding

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

Pigeons flying in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC for #FeatheredFriday

#Photography99 📷

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:58 UTC

Another Orange Sulphur butterfly in the Rudbeckia flowers. Blends perfectly.

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋 #FlowersOnFriday 💛

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

Bumblebee enjoying Hyssop for #FlowersOnFriday

#Photography99 📷 #Bumblebee

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:42 UTC

Happy Friday!
#FlowersOnFriday

Grass Skipper butterfly on Red Clover

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋 #Wildflowers ☘️ #MeadowLife 🌾

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:52 UTC

Bee Balm has a nice variety of colors too. Healthy herb for people as well.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:31 UTC

The Rudbeckia does keep the weeds away mostly.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:25 UTC

Each Rudbeckia flower produces hundreds of seeds. Thousands of seeds fell in the grass in front of the established flowerbed last year. I just mowed in front of them, thus expanding the flowerbed by four feet width more.

Yellow-collared Scape moth💛🖤

#Photography99 📷 #InsectThursday

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

As I said last week, ignore the media circus against President Biden. On this 248th Independence Day, declare independence from the repugnant Repubs world view, which includes setting their sights on destroying American democracy.

#VoteBlue always💙

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

The most appropriate quote on this 4th of July and for this year and beyond with the crazy Repubs and Trump wanting to shred our Republic and American democracy.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

Fiery Skipper butterfly on Echinacea for #InsectThursday

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:44 UTC

The blackberries serve as the slightly tart flavor needed when you can’t have citrus for balance due to high histamine in citrus. Otherwise, a little lemon would be a nice addition too.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:42 UTC

It would also be tasty great as a Mocktail or with Hendricks Gin (or your gin of choice) or Vodka or Lemoncello or as a Spritzer with Prosecco.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:39 UTC

Cheers! Happy 4th!

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

Low Histamine drinks.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:35 UTC

Cheers!

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:35 UTC

Harvested a few hundred wild Blackberries from our acreage at lunchtime. Made my wife and I drinks. Hers is Bacardi Rum, muddled blackberries, agave nectar, fresh mint and club soda. Mine is Casamigos Blanco with muddled blackberries, orange mint, Elderflower syrup and Coconut milk. Splash of soda.📷

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

Yes. I didn’t harvest the seeds until April this year, just before planting.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

🤩🤩🤩 Gorgeous!

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:21 UTC

Good Evening, (GMT 😉) I hope everyone is having a good day…
and Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸 🥳🍻

A few #ThursdayGreen photos from a lovely day, Flatford Mill, Essex/Suffolk Border U.K.
🌳🌾❤️💛💚💜🦋👒🌾🌳
📷 Jul’24 #Photography #Nature #BeKind #SeizeTheDay #BeHappy

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

Wow, Mark!!! Truly stunning photography. Thank you for the well wishes for the 4th. Hopefully, we can keep her.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

I rarely use fertilizers and never use chemicals (no pesticides, no herbicides and no fungicides). And we use organic soil. I might use organic fertilizer pellets on some roses.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:25 UTC

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Erin Golsen @erininkentucky.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:17 UTC

Lots of butterflies in the garden today, although it's way too hot to be out there for long.
#Butterfly #Flowers 💙🌷

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:19 UTC

Love, love, love. Post more photos.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:17 UTC

Wonderful photos as always. You need to follow @direbecca.bsky.social if you aren’t already.👇

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

I saved this Question Mark butterfly from a spiderweb . Now it is hanging out with me on the front porch. It keeps flying around me within inches as if to say thank you. No, thank you my beautiful fluttering friend.

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

Widow Skimmer dragonfly this morning for #InsectThursday

Dragonflies are bad ass!

#Photography99 📷

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Toby Berry @tobyberry6325.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

I thought you would enjoy my morning garden find

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:36 UTC

Needed something cold and refreshing on this sweltering 4th of July while taking butterfly and flower photos.

#Photography99 📷

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:25 UTC

Oh!!! Beautiful. Love Tigers.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

Harvest your Zinnia seeds. Free plants that bloom all summer until the first freeze of fall. And then harvest again year after year. Share with neighbors and friends. Dried flowers make for nice color inside in the winter too.

#Photography99 📷 #GardenLife

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

If you drink Oswego or Bergamot tea, you are drinking Bee Balm.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

Harvested thousands and thousands of Zinnia seeds last fall. In May, I planted in a dozen pots and throughout our flower beds.

#GardenLife #Photography99 📷

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:52 UTC

Bee Balm has a nice variety of colors too. Healthy herb for people as well.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

Yes. Goldfinches love Echinacea seeds. They also love Bee Balm seeds (photo) and Thistle seeds of course.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

Yes. I see them in public places too. Grab a dead flower head. Let it completely dry. Shake in a covered tin can to dislodge the seeds.

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

I must be still recovering from driving thousands of miles😂. The Rudbeckia is a 21 foot curve of flowers, not eight feet. They are also about 3 feet tall.🖤💛

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:17 UTC

Came back from our two week college tour to lots of flowers (and weeds). From an eight foot curve of Rudbeckia to seven foot tall Fennel (a favorite host plant for Black Swallowtails) to giant white Echinacea and perfectly pink Garden Phlox.

#GardenLife #Photography99 📷

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

Grey Hairstreak butterfly on Rudbeckia for #InsectThursday

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

The morning light was beautiful for this Orange Sulphur butterfly on the Rudbeckia flowers.

Happy #InsectThursday and happy Independence Day.

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

Funereal Duskywing butterfly on Rudbeckia this morning. It’s going to be a red hot Fourth of July today. Stay cool and hydrated.

#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

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