Category: lepidopterans

Readers’ wildlife photos

March 23, 2025 • 8:15 am

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:

Readers’ wildlife photos

March 16, 2025 • 8:35 am

Send in your photos, please!

It’s Sunday, so John Avise is back with a selection of North American butterfly photos. John’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge your photos by clicking on them.

This week continues my 18-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.

Polydamus Swallowtail (Battus polydamas), upperwing:

Polydamus Swallowtail, underwing:

Propertius Duskywing (Erynnis propertius):

Purplish Copper (Lycaena helloides), female upperwing:

Purplish Copper, female underwing:

Queen (Danaus gilippus), male upperwing:

Queen, male underwing:

Queen, female upperwing;

Queen, female underwing;

Question Mark (Polygonia interrogationis), upperwing:

Question Mark, underwing;

Question Mark, another specimen underwing:

Question Mark, another specimen upperwing:

Readers’ wildlife photos

March 9, 2025 • 8:15 am

It’s Sunday, ergo we have a new selection of North American butterfly photos from John Avise. John’s captions are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them. It’s his 250th contribution!

Butterflies in North America, Part 13 

This week is a landmark of sorts: It marks the 250th Sunday that PCC(E) has posted my photos (of birds and butterflies) on WEIT!  Today we continue my 18-part series on butterflies that I’ve photographed in North America.  I’m still drawing from my list of species in alphabetical order by common name.

Pacific Orangetip (Anthocharis sara) male upperwing:

Pacific Orangetip, male underwing:

Pacific Orangetip, female:

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), upperwing:

Painted Lady, underwing:

Pale Swallowtail (Papilio eurymedon), upperwing:

Pale Swallowtail, underwing:

Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes tharos),upperwing:

Pearl Crescent, underwing:

Phaon Crescent (Phyciodes phaon), upperwing:

Phaon Crescent, underwing:

Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor), upperwing:

Pipevine Swallowtail, chrysalis:

Readers’ wildlife photos

March 2, 2025 • 8:15 am

Because it’s Sunday, we get another dollop of photos from John Avise, who continues his series on 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 12 

This week continues my 18-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.

Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa), topwing:

Mourning Cloak, underwing:

Mourning Cloak, larvae on a host plant Arroyo Willow (Salix lasiolepis):

Mylitta Crescent (Phyciodes mylitta):

Northern Crescent (Phyciodes cocyta), topwing:

Northern Crescent, underwing:

Northern Pearly-eye (Lethe anthedon), underwing:

Northern White Skipper (Heliopetes ericetorum), topwing:

Northern White Skipper, underwing:

Ocola Skipper (Panoquina ocola) underwing:

Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme) underwing:

Orange-barred Sulphur (Phoebis philea), underwing:

Readers’ wildlife photos

February 23, 2025 • 8:15 am

We will run out of photos in two days, so I implore readers to send in their good wildlife photos. Thank you!

Today, though, it being a Sunday, we have our regular contribution by John Avise, who is doing a series on North American butterflies. His captions and IDs are indented, and you can click on the photos to enlarge them.

Butterflies in North America, Part 11 

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.  Today it’s more “M’s”.

Meadow Fritillary (Boloria bellona), topwing:

Meadow Fritillary, underwing:

Milbert’s Tortoiseshell (Aglasis milberti), topwing:

Milbert’s Tortoiseshell, underwing:

Monarch  (Danaus plexippus), male:

Monarch, female:

Monarch, underwing:

Monarch, larva:

Monarch, chrysalis:

Mormon Metalmark (Apodemia mormo):

Mountain Mahogany Hairstreak (Satyrium tetra), male:

Mournful Duskywing (Erynnis tristis), topwing:

Mournful Duskywing, underwing:

Readers’ wildlife photos

February 16, 2025 • 8:15 am

It’s Sunday, and that means photos (of butterflies now) by John Avise. John’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.

Butterflies in North America, Part 10 

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.  Now we’re up to some of the M’s.  Most of this week’s photos happen to have been taken in Florida.

Malachite (Siproeta stelenes), upperwing:

Malachite, underwing:

Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon istapa):

Mangrove Buckeye (Junonia genoveva), upperwing:

Mangrove Buckeye, underwing:

Mangrove Skipper (Phocides pigmalion), upperwing:

Mangrove Skipper, underwing:

Marine Blue (Leptotes marina):

Marine Blue, female above:

Marine Blue female below:

Martial Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon martialis) upperwing:

Martial Scrub-Hairstreak, underwing:

Readers’ wildlife photos

February 9, 2025 • 8:15 am

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: