Several people sent batches of photographs in, and many thanks to them. We have enough for about a week.
Today’s Sunday, which means that we have photos from biologist John Avise, who has moved from birds to lepidopterans. John’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them:
Butterflies in North America, Part 2
This week continues the series on butterflies that I have photographed in North America. I’m continuing to go down my list of species in alphabetical order by common name.
Atala (Eumaeus atala), underwing:
Atlantis Fritillary (Speyeria atlantis):
Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton):
Baltimore Checkerspot, underwing:
Barred Sulphur (Phoebis philea) underwing:
Behr’s Metalmark (Apodemia virgulti), topwing:
Behr’s Metalmark underwing:
Bernadino (square-spotted) Blue (Euphilotes allyni), male topwing:
Bernardino Blue, female:
Bernardino Blue, underwing:
Eastern Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes), male:
Black Swallowtail, underwing:
Delightful!
Beautiful butterflies. Every time I see a collection of butterflies I’m reminded of my old friend Bob Silberglied, who knew more about butterflies than anyone. He died in the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982. He would have been 78 years old had he lived.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65168975/robert_elliot-silberglied
I remember that crash and how fearful the public was about flying in very cold weather afterwards. That was tragic. I followed your link and read about your friend. He was so young! How very sad. I remember the Capt of that flight had a troublesome record.
Terrific! I seldom get to photograph Blue butterflies, since they are both small but flighty. I usually can’t get close enough.
Beautiful!
Impressive!
Love the camouflage of the Barred Sulphur, an amazing match to that leaf!
What a beautiful photograph of the Barred Sulphur. The Atala is a superstar. It did the work for you just by being there.
Great photos! Atalas are just amazingly handsome. Last spring in Key West they were festooning entire trees (can’t remember which species).
Forgot to read WEIT yesterday, oops 🙁