One of two white butterflies I saw fluttering around a hedge.
Tag: butterflies
Hey look, nectar!
Monarch (Madrona Marsh)
Common Buckeye
This particular corner seems popular with butterflies. Just about every time I walk by, I see at least two or three.
Marine Blue (on grass & clover)
Now that I’ve had more time to look through the photos from this hike, I …
Now that I’ve had more time to look through the photos from this hike, I like this wider crop of the first #MonarchButterfly shot.
#butterflies #nature #jacaranda #photo
Two crops of the same photo taken on a quick walk around the block…
Two crops of the same photo taken on a quick walk around the block. I really like the landscape crop showing the fiery skipper as it flies from one flower to the next…but after I cropped it, I noticed the bee also flying in the foreground of the original, and I just had to find a way to keep them both in the frame and still draw attention to them.
#nature #butterflies #bees #photo
On Photog.Social
Flickr: Skipping
Flickr: In Transit
iNat post
Realized this isn’t iceplant. INat suggests it’s in the Kleinia genus, but I’m not sure beyond that.
Follow-up: The plant is Blue Chalksticks.
Fiery Skipper (blue chalksticks)
A common buckeye spotted on a walk around the block
Fiery Skipper (ragged)
There were two of these butterflies, the other in much better shape in terms of both wings and color, but that one was too far away to capture a picture with my phone.
A monarch butterfly spotted last week.
Photo taken at: South Coast Botanic Garden
A #MonarchButterfly spotted at the #southcoastbotanicgarden last week. I’ve been noticing the occasional monarch for several weeks, but I wasn’t able to photograph any until this one. #nature #butterflies
I’ve been spotting monarchs lately, but haven’t caught any photos until today!
I’ve been spotting monarchs lately, but haven’t caught any photos until today!
The first #MonarchButterfly paused up in a tree. I was surprised I could get a clear shot.
The second monarch is injured. I couldn’t see that its wing was torn, but I could tell it was hurt by the way it was flapping its wings on the ground, trying and failing to fly. It did eventually take off, but it landed again soon after.
Bonus: a #MourningCloak from farther down the trail.
#butterflies #photography #nature
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Perching Monarch on iNaturalist
Injured Monarch on iNaturalist
Mourning Cloak on iNaturalist
I saw a lot of butterflies at Madrona Marsh over the weekend…
Photo taken at: Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center
I saw a lot of #butterflies at #MadronaMarsh over the weekend, including some pale yellow ones and some black ones and even a few monarchs, plus a lot of these white and orange ones. #iNaturalist narrows them down to the Pontia & Hylephila genuses (geni?). #nature
According to biophilic1 on iNaturalist, these are a Checkered White and a Fiery Skipper.
Pontia (Checkered White)
Buckeye Butterfly
Buckeye #butterfly spotted in a field near LAX airport. There were a lot of butterflies of at least three types flitting about in the mustard, but this is the only one that stayed still long enough for me to catch a photo.
