Unfortunately, the press of work yesterday made me completely forget it was Sunday, and the day to post John Avise‘s latest and last group of North American butterfly photos. John’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them. Let’s hear it for John’s butterfly photos? Will a new species replace them? You’ll have to wait and see.
Butterflies in North America, Part 18
This week concludes my multi-part series on North American butterflies.With this post, we’ve finally reached the letter Z (of common names), so this will be my final post on the many butterfly species found on this continent.
Western Pygmy Blue (Brephidium exilis), male:
Western Pygmy Blue, female:
Western Pygmy Blue, underwing
Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus), upperwing:
Western Tiger Swallowtail, underwing:
Eurasian White Admiral (Limenitis camilla):
White Checkered-skipper (Burnsius albescens):
Woodland Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanoides), upperwing:
Woodland Skipper, underwing:
Wright’s Metalmark (Calephelis wrighti), upperwing:
Wright’s Metalmark, underwing:
Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charithonia), upperwing:
Zebra Longwing, underwing:
Magnificent collection of photos. A real treat. Thanks for sharing, John!
Wowww … I knew something was out of whack – that’s why! Favorite : Zebra Longwing!
I must say, Sunday is the perfect day for this one.
This has been a beautiful series. Thanks John. I bet that the Zebra Longwing was one scary looking caterpillar as a child.
Lovely photos, lovely creatures.
So endeth the story of North American butterflies. Thank you for the wonderful series.
You truly do justice to these beautiful examples of nature’s art.
Very nice! And I miss them already.
I am puzzled about the White Admiral. I know that name as a named subspecies of the polymorphic Red-spotted Purple, Limenitis arthemis. But likely the story is more elaborate.
The story of the White Admiral and the Red-spotted Purple is a fascinating evolutionary tale. It’s a complicated situation that is described at length at the following site, which I highly recommend reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limenitis_arthemis.
These were so beautiful. I was wondering what the Z butterfly would be! It’s just gorgeous.
Thank you for the series.
Lovely. Thanks. 🦋🦋🦋
These are great to see. Thanks for sharing them!
I think that the labelling on the two photos of the Zebra Longwing is reversed – the first picture was definitely taken from below.
Nice to see Brephidium exilis pictured. When I was a high school student in southern California, I did a mark, release, capture study with them to estimate the local population size, and used a computer program supplied by my dad (an expert on the frog then known as Hyla regilla) for data analysis.
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401(k) perhaps? Also, large numbers of workers don’t have access to these tax-deferred plans through their employer.
Personally, I’d like to see defined benefit plans return, although I don’t know how that would happen. Even if you are fortunate enough to have a 401(k) plan, you are directly exposed to the market, and if there can be limitations on early withdrawal.
Basically, employers shifted the burden of retirement savings onto the employee, and most people drastically underplan for their retirement. A reckoning is going to happen in the next 5-10 years as large swathes of boomers finally exit the workforce and social security breaks under the strain.