#WingedWednesday #MyPhoto #MyWork #nature #butterflies
Red Admiral peers down from a blooming apricot twig.
#butterflies
#MonarchMonday #MyPhoto #MyWork #butterflies
If you suspected as much, your suspicions are now confirmed that I take Monarch butterflies seriously. With their populations dropping like a rock, I think you should too, even though you might not be inclined to be a citizen scientist. Just plant nectar rich wild flowers and milkweeds and you're good.
(Alt text = 2 photos of posted signage indicating that the yard is a National Wildlife Federation Habitat, a Monarch Larva Monitoring Project site, and a Monarch Watch Waystation)
#MonarchMonday #MilkweedMonday
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Unfortunately too many people mistake young Honeyvine for Bindweed and pull it up, and claim it's invasive when it isn't. If you care for it, it will reward you with beauty, Monarchs, and lots of other butterflies.
(alt text = a cattle panel fencerow adorned with blooming Honeyvine being inspected by a Monarch couple)
#MilkweedMonday #Pollinators #MyPhoto #MyWork #nature #butterflies
The flowers are from an unrecognized milkweed: Honeyvine (Cynanchum laeve) but it's not just Monarch butterflies that are attracted to it--it's called HONEYvine for a reason.
(alt text = a Common Buckeye butterfly sips from Honeyvine flowers)
#Pollenators #MyPhoto #MyWork #nature #butterflies
There's no way people can say that Bordered Patch butterflies don't know how to party.
(Alt text = 3Bordered Patch butterflies closely schmooze on a single leaf of a blooming Agastache, aka Anise Hyssop)
Monarch Monday!
#MonarchMonday
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They'll remigrate in about a month! Be ready!
(Alt text = a tiny monarch hatchling making its way out of its eggshell)
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Before the Monarchs in Mexico break camp in March to remigrate north, Cabbage White butterflies come out, and, well, these guys although it seems they like hiding among the leaves of last fall, until a lady flies by and then they go on full orange display.
#GoatweedLeafwing #MyPhoto #MyWork #nature #butterflies
Bright-eyed Brown butterfly - what a delight to see!
"This small butterfly (from the Nymphalidae or ‘Brown’ family) is known to inhabit peat swamps in coastal and inland areas in the far south-east of South Australia and western Victoria – habitat that has been significantly reduced by wetland drainage and other factors since colonisation. "
Butterflies on the Brink
The local creek has been replanted (over many years) with many native species including Carex, the larval plant of these little gems, while garden/paddock plantings of Leptospermum and Melaleuca spp. help as food-plants.
Of course, this may be the only bright-eyed brown for kilomiles - hopefully not - but i'm classing it as small (and beautiful) success.
i'm wrapt to the gills :D
#photo #insects #species-revival #SWVic #Glenelg-Ark #Joy #butterflies #insects #Australia
Today it's 25C and humid. The butterflies are out in force, and it struck me that it looks like a white Christmas! I wanted to get a picture of a good flurry of them, but they weren't cooperating when I snapped my photos! The one photo looks good and captures some of them.
These are called Cabbage White butterflies.
Tagpfauenauge auf Distel / Peacock Butterfly on Thistle
am Naturschutzgebiet Riethbenden in Traar (Krefeld), September 2023
#Tagpfauenaugen #Krefeld #Niederrhein #Traar #Insekten #Schmetterlinge #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #butterflies #nymphalidae #peacockbutterfly
Waldbrettspiel / Speckled Wood
am Naturschutzgebiet Riethbenden in Traar (Krefeld), September 2023
#Waldbrettspiele #Krefeld #Niederrhein #Traar #Insekten #Schmetterlinge #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #butterflies #nymphalidae #speckledwood
Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)
#butterfly #butterflies #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
Kohlweißling an Margerite / Cabbage White at Daisy
im Volkspark Rheinhausen, Juni 2023
#Kohlweißlinge #Rheinhausen #Niederrhein #Volkspark #Insekten #Schmetterlinge #Duisburg #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #butterflies #pieridae #cabbagewhite
Waldbrettspiel tarnt sich als Hai / Speckled wood disguises as shark
am Naturschutzgebiet an der ehemaligen Asterlager Kuhstraße in Asterlagen (Rheinhausen), Juni 2023
#Waldbrettspiele #Rheinhausen #Niederrhein #Asterlagen #Insekten #Schmetterlinge #Duisburg #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #butterflies #nymphalidae #speckledwood
https://mastodon.social/@backyardecology/110822592376961787 backyardecology@mastodon.social - So far, during the #MonarchBlitz (July 28 - Aug. 6), I have seen a least 2 monarchs and have photographed at least 1 monarch per day. Here's another male in the front yard this afternoon. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Illinois #nature #macro #photography #SaveTheMonarch #wildlifephotography
Waldbrettspiel / Speckled Wood
am Naturschutzgebiet an der ehemaligen Asterlager Kuhstraße in Asterlagen (Rheinhausen), Mai 2023
#Waldbrettspiele #Rheinhausen #Niederrhein #Asterlagen #Insekten #Schmetterlinge #Duisburg #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#animals #protostome #arthropod #insects #pterygota #butterflies #nymphalidae #speckledwood
Blumenwiese / Flower Meadow
Fotos und Videos mit Insekten zwischen Blumen
#archiveorg: https://archive.org/details/104178
Musik: ChillPills
Blumenwiese
#Schmetterlinge #Bienen #Hummeln #Schwebfliegen #Schlupfwespen #Raupen #Pflanzen #Blumenwiese #foto #photo #fotografie #photography #slideshow #slide #video #Nature #Plants #Flowers #FlowerMeadow #Butterflies #Bees #Bumblebees #Hoverflies #Ichneumonidae #Caterpillars