My Patio Wildlife

Got a pot of this 2 years ago, never bloomed on our balcony, but this year I have loads :D One of my fav flowers, organized chaos!

Not a great photo per se, but the subject I found interesting. This was one of my Small White Butterfly larva, it had completed making a pupa but a small wasp (likely Cotesia glomerata wasp [thanks to Rockwolf for the likely ID]) kept hanging around the larva and pupa. This is the restult, obviously hatched out. The next photo shows that at the same sorta date a Small White has emerged fine. Photos from under our eve of roof. What I found interesting was that the wasp sat up on the eve for days waiting I suppose, but did wait until the larva was in full pupation to go away (finish predating it).

Small white with pupa from under our eve, while only a few feet away from the previous photo, they had been predated by some wasp this one emerged this year fine. I still have two that have not done anything that I know of.

Can be pretty :)

Couldn't believe the colors in this, was too amazing not to share :) I do love my balcony!

A wild weather day pre '40 day floods' weather, the storm just above the sea was really impressive, but the rays showed well on camera... just another sky from this winteryness from the patio

Don't get excited this lovely lady visited me last September, after me looking everywhere for one it showed up on my patio/balcony! Happy Valentine's Day to all you Ipernites <3

I have loads of these up, but they are so photogenic, I can't help myself...

A few from last falls patio lives :)

Every time I get one of these in bloom, we get rain or wind and by the next day when the sun arrives its missing petals or looking worn. Finally got one sorta like...lol

Some of the other lovely things that show up at a moth box. No idea which one this is, if anyone has a thought.

Some of the other lovely things that show up at a moth box.