A painted lady (or related) #butterfly seen while out walking today.
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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.
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
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
Cabbage White
This shot came out much clearer! It’s a gulf fritillary.
Spotted a Monarch butterfly today, and it actually landed and held still long enough for me to get a clear photo.
Spotted a #Monarch #butterfly today, and it actually landed and held still long enough for me to get a clear photo.
Skipper, probably Fiery
#FotoFails I saw a gorgeous Marine Blue butterfly that actually paused long enough for me …
#FotoFails I saw a gorgeous Marine Blue #butterfly that actually paused long enough for me to take a picture…with its wings open, even! But my camera kept insisting on focusing on the leaves behind it. 🙄
A Gray Hairstreak butterfly
A #GrayHairstreak #butterfly. Not the one from the previous photo, but another one spotted on the same hike.
Interesting rolling shutter effect on this butterfly’s wings as they moved too fast for the camera’s sensor
Interesting #RollingShutter effect on this #butterfly’s wings as they moved too fast for the camera’s sensor. Probably a #GrayHairstreak.
A cabbage white butterfly. I hardly ever catch these holding still…
A cabbage white #butterfly. I hardly ever catch these holding still, and o thought I'd caught this one perched on the flowers, but it took off as I pressed the button. Fortunately my phone had already focused, and I got a better photo than I was expecting!
A cabbage white butterfly stops to find nectar on a dandelion.
A cabbage white #butterfly stops to find nectar on a dandelion.
Cloudless Suplhur
A tiny Marine Blue butterfly on Blue Chalksticks flowers.
A tiny Marine Blue #butterfly on Blue Chalksticks flowers.
The name might seem odd, but when they open their wings, the inside shades to a bright blue near the body.
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Fiery Skipper (on Home Depot sunflower)
A common buckeye spotted on a walk around the block
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.
Monarch butterfly. Blurry, but it’s a wonder I caught a photo at all with my phone.
Photo taken at: South Coast Botanic Garden
Monarch butterfly. Blurry, but it’s a wonder I caught a photo at all with my phone.