It’s Sunday, and that means John Avise Photograph Day. John continues today with his series on North American butterflies. His IDs and captions are indented, and you can enlarge his photos by clicking on them. This is post 29,999
Butterflies in North America, Part 9
This week continues my multi-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. With this post, we’ve reached the halfway point of my photographic tour through this continent’s many Lepidopterans.
Juba Skipper (Hesperia juba), topwing:
Juba Skipper, underwing:
Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia), upperwing:
Leonard’s Skipper (Hesperia leonardus), male:
Leonard’s Skipper, female:
Little Glassywing (Vernia verna), underwing:
Little Wood Satyr (Megisto cymela), underwing:
Long Dash Skippper (Limochores mystic):
Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus), topwing:
Long-tailed Skipper, underwing:
Lorquin’s Admiral (Limenitis lorquini), topwing:
Lorquin’s Admiral, underwing:
Yay! 30,000 posts and such an extraordinary percentage have been hugely interesting. Thank you and here’s to the next 30,000!
Ahhh, simple, clear, beautiful.
Beautiful!
Nice! Any new species of butterfly would be great to see, but I long to one day photograph a long tail skipper. …
Really beautiful! The bodies of the Long-tail Skipper and Long Dash Skipper could be an impressionist painting with all those colors blended together.
Thank you!
Lovely to see the greenish blue dusting on the body of the Jubba Skipper thanks to the closeness of the shot, (also on the Long-Dash and Long Tailed). Don’t get to truly appreciate the detailed beauty from a distance. Quite nice. Thanks.
Once again, thank you for such beautiful butterfly photos. You’ve probably already noted the following, but I must have missed it. Are they all North American species? Many are found in PA, where I am, but I’ve never heard of a couple of them.
And congratulations PJC(E)–Ceiling Cat!–on 30,000!
All of my photos in this series were taken in the United States (including in a few cases extreme southern Florida), so in that sense they are all “North American” species. But several of the butterflies (such as the Heliconians) are much more common and widely distributed in the American tropics and don’t occur as far north as PA.
Absolutely lovely, as always – each one so nicely framed and well lit. Like other commenters, I’m especially struck by the elegance of the Long-Tailed Skipper, a species I’ve never seen.