Posts Tagged ‘Butterflies’
Harris’s Checkerspot
This was the target species for a butterfly walk I took yesterday. An uncommon butterfly, you have to go to particular spots to find them:
I saw lots of skippers (Least skipper, Hobomok skipper, Cloudywings, Silver spotted skipper) and summer nymphalids (Viceroy, American Lady). And an unusual bug I’ll post later…
In Massachusetts, Harris’s checkerspot is local [...]
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Pearl Crescent
Pearl Crescent is common, but beautiful:
Thought I’d try a low angle and selective focus for a different look. Now is a peak time to go butterfly watching – there are lots of species flying in the Northeast.
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Henry’s Elfin
Elfins are tiny spring butterflies, many of them brown. Henry’s Elfin is one of the more attractive ones:
Henry’s is somewhat uncommon, the one seen more often is Brown Elfin. You find Brown Elfin on heathy hilltops around lowbush blueberry. You can find Henry’s Elfin in the same areas, but I sometimes see Henry’s perched higher, [...]
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Least Skipper
An image from last year I rediscovered going through my files:
A small butterfly that you find in wet grassy places- this was a find from last June.
Outside, spring keeps coming closer. I’ve been seeing a number of early butterflies on warm days, but it remains quite cold at night, around freexing. My crocuses are about [...]
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American Copper
I’ve been stopping by a nearby field with foxtails, waiting to see what perches on them. Here’s a favorite common butterfly, American Copper. They are roughly the size of a small postage stamp. They can have big flights of almost 1000 butterflies in some years and locations, but I see then in smaller numbers in [...]
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Summer Monarchs
I haven’t been seeing that many butterflies lately, but Monarchs have been a constant. I’ve been seeing Monarchs steadily since June in small numbers in lots of Massachusetts locations, more than the usual number. Since Monarch numbers here peak around fall migration, this may be a good year for Monarchs and for observing Monarch migration.
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Least Skipper
Least skipper is a tiny butterfly about the size of a dime. They have a fluttery, weak flight, but they are pretty easy to disturb, so they are a tricky subject. I find them in grasses near wet areas.
Happily I found a couple of them recently on a cool cloudy day – they weren’t flighty [...]
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Mourning cloak
The first butterflies of the season aren’t freshly emerged from the chrysalis, they are about a year old. Early spring butterflies in the northeast – Mourning Cloaks, Eastern Commas, Milbert’s Tortoiseshells, and Compton’s Tortoiseshells – were caterpillars in the summer of 2007. They emerged as adults during midsummer last year, and spent the winter [...]
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Faces
Earlier this year I decided to do a series of face shots of insects. The idea was to make the insect look more human in scale, not the tiny creatures they really are. Eye contact is important in the group – the insect looks directly at the viewer or in a three-quarters profile. I avoided [...]
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Common ringlet
This is a pretty dull part of the summer for butterflies, but this satyr is flying now:
Taken in a favorite meadow with high grasses that make great upright perches for insect.
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