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08 Sep 2021, 3:23 pm

[url=Image]Sulfur cat[/url]

Here's the sulfur cat. You may know which sulfur it is.

I still don't have a good grip on how the various hosting sites work. I didn't realize there were comments to move to. A part of not growing up with it. My theses were written with a typewriter. :D

And all the photos I took, when I was doing that, were on film and are now quite faded. It is wonderful you have such tools like digital cameras and online resources.

From your inature photos, the ones I know are few. Fiery Skipper, Long-tailed Skipper, we have a lot of those. The buckeye is usually up near the mailbox in the fields. We have quite a few swallowtails here.


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11 Sep 2021, 7:13 pm

Here's a picture I took of one in my brother's yard with my phone.

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I'm not an expert on butterflies but I think this one is a Viceroy which is a mimic of a Monarch. :king:


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12 Sep 2021, 2:23 am

Animals have the property that they need food to live. And butterflies are no exception. The caterpillars in the video below only have an eye/stomach for a boxwood plant. They devour no other plant, only the boxwood. The boxwood in the video is in my mother's garden, i should say it was in my mother's garden, since the caterpillars have eaten the plant to shreds. Not a single leaf was left untouched. Not my mother, but i thought it was a very beautiful and fascinating image of how the caterpillars were feasting.



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12 Sep 2021, 5:14 am

blazingstar wrote:
[url=Image]Sulfur cat[/url]

Wonderful! It's most likely Phoebis sennae (not sure of your general location though, so this could be wrong)


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12 Sep 2021, 5:15 am

King0fSpades wrote:
Here's a picture I took of one in my brother's yard with my phone.

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I'm not an expert on butterflies but I think this one is a Viceroy which is a mimic of a Monarch. :king:


This is a Gulf Fritillary (Dione vanillae) :heart:


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12 Sep 2021, 4:01 pm

Fenn, great IDs. I’m in south central Florida. I rarely see the yellow sulfurs close enough to ID by markings. They fly so high and don’t rest often at human level. That cat was on senna.

I am fond of gulf fritillaries. There aren’t as many here as when I lived further south.


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16 Sep 2021, 5:52 am

Mew!

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Small Tortoiseshell, from last month. It wasn't a great summer for butterflies here: very little except for Large Whites and Speckled Woods.


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16 Sep 2021, 8:42 am

I made a new friend yesterday, The Mournful Sphinx (Enyo lugubris)
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16 Sep 2021, 11:32 am

A picture/book to set my hero Charles Darwin in the spotlights :)

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16 Sep 2021, 5:46 pm

Flown wrote:
I made a new friend yesterday, The Mournful Sphinx (Enyo lugubris)
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Lovely, sleepy sphinx moth! I like that family. Got interested in moths after rescuing some kind of hawkmoth at work about ten years ago. I don't know the species, but it was huge- a good 5cm across. I scooped it up between rubber-gloved hands, but by the time I got to the door it had wriggled out without me noticing and was just calmly sitting on my thumb!


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16 Sep 2021, 8:08 pm

Not a moth, but this was found in a display at the Kansas State Fair this year:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 314491002/

The boy who entered it got a blue ribbon on the display.



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17 Sep 2021, 8:55 am

PhosphorusDecree wrote:
Flown wrote:
I made a new friend yesterday, The Mournful Sphinx (Enyo lugubris)
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Lovely, sleepy sphinx moth! I like that family. Got interested in moths after rescuing some kind of hawkmoth at work about ten years ago. I don't know the species, but it was huge- a good 5cm across. I scooped it up between rubber-gloved hands, but by the time I got to the door it had wriggled out without me noticing and was just calmly sitting on my thumb!

Sphingids are super friendly. Definitely one of my favorite families!


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17 Sep 2021, 9:08 am

Is this a hummingbird?

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Close, but no! It's a hummingbird moth! :mrgreen:



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17 Sep 2021, 9:15 am

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Is this a hummingbird?

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Close, but no! It's a hummingbird moth! :mrgreen:

Macroglossum stellatarum I think? Also in the Sphingidae family (like the photos I posted above) :)


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11 Oct 2021, 10:23 am

Five years ago was in the city of Domburg. Just behind the dunes i came across a butterfly that was rare for me. In terms of color and shape it reminded me of a kite, a yellow mini kite. In a way it was a mini kite, luckily for this mini kite he/she was not tied to a rope, as there were many trapped a few dozen meters on the beach. The photo below is of that encounter with the butterfly in question.

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11 Oct 2021, 11:16 am

My lysDexic friend refers to them as "Flutterbys".


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