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Blurry butterfly bothers
Oblivious bee
Tag: butterflies
Orange
Love is Like a Bow Tie
Great Purple Hairstreak Butterflies in love.
First Butterfly, Etc.
Woodpecker
Flycatcher
Daddy Owl napping
Mama Owl with a ULO (unidentified leaning object).
Monarch and a Skipper
The Skipper flew into the Monarch. The Monarch flew away.
Pearl Crescents Courting
“Hi there big little boy!”
Romance is in the air and on the Shasta Daisies, as the Pearl Cresent Butterflies have been courting with standoffs and flurries of fluttery foolery in the flowers. I assume the smaller butterflies are the males.
“This is my good side.”
“Well? Are you just going to stand there and gawk at me?”
Lady Cresent in waiting.
She didn’t have to wait long.
The male paused to savor the view of Lady Crescent’s beautiful butterfly behind.
An advance.
Fluttery butterfly foolery in the flower.
I found these two had snuck off into the weeds to do the butterfly bad thing.
This is what they call the “Butterly Position”.
Viceroy on the Rio Grande
A Viceroy Butterfly was hanging out along the edge of the Rio Grande this morning. He had a chunk out of his wing, but he fluttered about like nothing was wrong.
Reakirt’s Blue
Reakirt’s Blue (Echinargus isola) is a tiny butterfly with a wingspan of only 3/4 of an inch (19mm). This one distracted me while I was walking in the bosque this morning.
Buckeye and the Painted Lady
First Butterfly & Flowers
Mourning Cloaks are consistently the first butterflies to appear in March each year. While they prefer to feed on tree sap, oaks are a favorite, or rotting fruit, they have to make due with sucking nectar from the blossoms of our early blooming plum tree. The Mourning Cloak caterpillars like to feed on a variety of tree leaves including elms and cottonwoods, which we have plenty of. Adults that appear this early in the season have hibernated over the winter.
Off Center & Not Even 