Today we have another installment of John Avise‘s alphabetized list of photos of North American butterflies. John’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.
Butterflies in North America, Part 15
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.
Reakirt’s Blue (Echinargus isola), female:
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), upperwing:
Red Admiral, underwing:
Red-banded Hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops), underwing:
Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis):
Ruddy Daggerwing (Marpesia petreus),upperwing:
Rural Skipper (Ochlodes agricola), upperwing:
Rural Skipper, underwing:
Sandhill Skipper (Polites sabuleti), upperwing:
Silver-bordered Fritillary (Boloria selene), upperwing:
Silver-bordered Fritillary, underwing:
Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus), upperwing:
Ahhhh… beautiful.
Beautiful! 🦋🦋🦋
Beautiful!
Wonderful photos to wake up to.
Thanks!
Very nice, as always! I would loooove to even see the Daggerwing.
Gorgeous! How did you convince them to pose so nicely against attractive backgrounds? 🙂
It’s so nice to receive positive sentiments about my photographic efforts. After spending nearly a half-century in academia, I had become much more accustomed to negative (or at least sharply critical) reviewer comments on research papers that I had submitted for publication! So this is a very welcome change!
“Review unto others as you would have them review unto you” is a principle that ought to be taught to every grad student (I try!)
Good grief! Doesn’t the hard work and effort to showcase the beautiful creatures themselves have value? IMO, critical reviewers should literally take a hike!
Wow, what an enlightened and helpful motto for the practice of science!
Wonderful photos–thank you so much!