I sure did not expect to see this Silver-Spotted Skipper. We were hiking near the stillwater river when we saw this butterfly. What a wondeful surprise.
~ Rick
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We saw a couple Pearl Crescent Butterflies this past week. Frankly it caught me by surprise. The temperature was in the 50s which is a little cold for butterflies. It was sunny but didn't feel like butterfly weather.
~ Rick
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This is the first photo of a Painted Lady this season. What a cool butterfly. Great colors!
~ Rick
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I think I have said this recently .. Ww are on the front edge of butterfly season and this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is just beautiful. I don't think we usually see many swallowtails this early but there she was. I love this observation (see the link above):
Swallowtails are very large insects. When basking in the sun, their outspread wings can be 8 to 14 cm (3 to 5.5 inches) from tip to tip. Their colors are vibrant. Broad yellow wings are edged by black and with four stripes, like tapering chevrons from the forewing margins downward into the yellow wings. The bottom edges of the hind wings are especially colorful with bluish scales and one or more red spots. Male Tiger Swallowtails generally have darker blacks and none of the bluish and red scales on their hind wings. Interestingly, there is a black morph, where black replaces the broad yellow expanses. The black morphs also have the bluish and red wing scales on their hind wings.
They are large and beautiful.
~ Rick
We got all excited to see this Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme). Yellow ororange .. what do you think?
~ Rick
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