Butterflies

[BAKPAKR]

A monarch finally showed up to join the swallowtails.

 

[Geedubya]

ya!

GWB

 

[BenP]

Had a Variegated Fritillary stop by today.

 

[Geedubya]

ya!

GWB

 

[BenP]

Height of flutter-fly season.

Had a small Gray Hairstreak.


And had a silver-spotted skipper.

 

[BenP]

More showing up in the flower garden, still a few I couldn't get pictures of.

Painted Lady



And then a common sootywing

 

[gouch]

 

[BenP]

There was a monarch in my area but seems something decided to taste it and left the wings. So did science class with the kids to show the scales of the wings.

 

[BenP]

Season is starting to wrap up, did see this Common Buckeye flying around and finally got a picture of it.

 

[Brute]

 

[BenP]

Orange Sulphur on one of the sunflowers.

 

[Guy]

 

[NEWHunter]

Probably a moth. Interesting landing spot.

 

[antlerradar]

How about a moth

 

[antlerradar]

Big Spinx Moth

 

[Dozerfrelich]

Nice collection!

 

[BenP]

It's been a lackluster year for pollinators here, last year the celosia patch was a constant buzz from the bees and the zinnias were a butterfly oasis. This year there hasn't been much and I'm not sure why, maybe the dry spell we had earlier in the messed up the cycle.

But have had a lot of silver spotted slippers the last week. Didn't take any pictures of those but spotted this Fiery Skipper yesterday. Thought he looked cool when he put his wings down, kind of like a F-22 look.