Butterfly-friendly native CA plants purchased from a local conservation group have collected a caterpillar! Looks like a Sphynx moth.
Now I just need to finish transplanting the rest of the plants into the actual ground!
Tag: butterflies
Another Fiery Skipper from the first spring of the pandemic
Another #FierySkipper from the first spring of the pandemic.
A Fiery Skipper butterfly spotted last summer.
Looking through photos I somehow missed posting before. Here's a #FierySkipper #butterfly spotted last summer. #nature
Cloudless Sulphur (butterfly)
Monarch of the Sky
A painted lady (or related) butterfly seen while out walking today.
A painted lady (or related) #butterfly seen while out walking today.
Some butterflies spotted the other day while hiking.
Some #butterflies spotted the other day while hiking. A gulf fritillary (orange), some kind of blue, possibly a marine blue (tiny with brown wings and a blue body), and possibly a cloudless sulphur (yellow).
The blues are always hard to spot because they’re so small, and the sulphurs just don’t want to pause most of the time. But the fritillaries are more willing to stop, and there were SO MANY of them at the gardens on Monday.
Maybe a cloudless sulphur? Whatever it is, these yellow ones hardly ever pause long enough for me to take a picture.
There were so. many. fritillaries.
Gulf Fritillary
Hylephila
Some butterflies from an exhibit, including a banded orange, a postman, an two morphos…
Some #butterflies from an exhibit, including a banded orange, a postman, an two morphos (they had SO many morphos)…
one of which decided to land on my leg and stay there. They had made it clear that we were not to touch the butterflies so as not to damage the wings with skin oils, so when it still hadn’t left after a couple of minutes, I asked a staff member to remove it, and they coaxed it away with a sponge brush soaked in gatorade.
Monarch
A Monarch Butterfly spotted while walking around the neighborhood the other day.
A #MonarchButterfly spotted while walking around the neighborhood the other day.
#nature #photo #butterfly #flowers
Mourning Cloak (butterfly on pine tree, SCBG)
Two monarch butterflies flying around and chasing each other (slowly) down the block.
Two monarch butterflies flying around and chasing each other (slowly) down the block.
A swallowtail butterfly, photographed using the classic technique of desperately following it with the camera…
A #swallowtail #butterfly, photographed using the classic technique of desperately following it with the camera and clicking the shutter when I hope it’s pointing vaguely in the right direction to at least catch it in frame and it probably won’t be in focus anyway but with luck it’ll at least be identifiable and…hey, not bad!
(Otherwise I’ve basically given up trying to actually aim at butterflies when they’re flying.)
Western Tiger Swallowtail
I saw several monarch butterflies at the botanic gardens up in the hills yesterday
I saw several monarch butterflies at the botanic gardens up in the hills yesterday, but no more than about three at a time. Numbers have dropped drastically over the last few years.
#photo #butterfly #MonarchButterfly #nature
Monarch (torn wing, in sky)
Gulf Fritillary
Gulf Fritillary
Some butterflies spotted over the last few days
Some #butterflies spotted over the last few days:
A monarch that nicely paused on the grass with its wings open, long enough to catch a clear photo.
A swallowtail that I sort of caught in flight, at a distance. It’s very low-resolution, but it’s also clearly identifiable!
A cabbage white that I was able to catch with a zoom lens.
On Photog.Social
Monarch on iNaturalist
Cabbage White on iNaturalist
Swallowtail on iNaturalist