We’re back to readers’ wildlife, and I have about five days’ worth, but please send in your photos. Today being Sunday, we’re featuring the photos of John Avise, who has moved from birds to butterflies. John’s captions are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them.
Butterflies in North America, Part 6
This week continues my many-part series on butterflies that I’ve photographed in North America. I’m continuing to go down my list of species in alphabetical order by common name.
Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes), topwing:
Dorantes Longtail, underwing:
Dotted Blue (Euphilotes enoptes):
Dotted Blue, underwing:
Dun Skipper (Euphyes vestris):
Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma):
Eastern Comma, underwing:
Eyed Brown (Satyrodes eurydice):
Eyed Brown, another specimen:
Field Crescent (Phyciodes pulchella), topwing:
Field Crescent, underwing:
Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus), male topwing:
Fiery Skipper, male underwing:
Fiery Skipper, female topwing:
Fiery Skipper, female underwing:
Beautiful photos!
Thanks!
Beautiful! You have a way with flying-creature photography. Are bats next? I know there’s a long way to go before we get to the Z-butterflies.
Very nice! Photographing any one of the long tail skippers is one of my goals.
Beautiful butterfly shots John, thanks!
Lovely photos.
How do you sex a butterfly at a distance? Are there consistent sexual differences found across taxa? Or is it mainly species-specific colour dimorphism?
For butterflies, when you can tell the sexes apart, I think it’s pretty much a matter of species-specific colour dimorphism.
Thanks, John. I was wondering if I was missing something.
Very nice. Thanks.
The longtail is especially elegant. Thank you for these!
Nice! thanks for posting.
This series strikes me like sports collecting cards – it’d be neat to have the other side with statistics and facts…