Essa belezinha minúscula apareceu no meu quarto durante a noite. Estou impressionada com a beleza! Reparem o brilho azulado sobre a parte branca das asas, isso é arte!!!
This beauty was hanging out by my back door today for quite a while. One app says Red Spotted Purple. The other says Red Spotted Admiral. Is there a difference?
Northwest Indiana
Mrs. Monarch just laid this egg plus others on my showy milkweed. It's the first time I've seen them doing it and taken a picture of the egg. Eastern Kansas.
I don't see these every year, so this was a nice surprise. (US/Maryland)
Is this an Indian Cupid butterfly? Are they naturalized in the United States? I'm in Eastern Kansas.
I have 7 butterfly milkweed plants outside my office window. I see so many butterflies and caterpillars, however I never see any chrysalises/chrysalides. My office window is a bay window and I was looking underneath it for something completely unrelated and I FOUND THEM!! Can anyone recommend a high quality camera that I can place under there with them to capture some great videos to share?
I’m no professional photographer, and I’m certainly not good at timing photos when things are moving. But I just happened to snap this one at the split second its wings were wide open. I feel really lucky I get to have a picture of it forever, especially since it was very active and constantly moving 🙂
We were hanging around a lake that was a bit swampy, fairly humid out by my standards. Cattails around and such. Again, as the title says we were in West Virginia. From some pictures online, it looks like it might be a red spotted purple butterfly, but I wanted to check with the experts here. Also wondering how common they are in West Virginia.
I’ve definitely never seen anything like it before with my own eyes and it has to be one of my favorite photos from the albeit short trip!