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Cloudless Sulphur butterfly on a palm in my sister's yard. Winter Springs, FL.
Photo and texture are my own.
Created for The Blind Pig Speakeasy Challenge 32 - Urban Nature: www.flickr.com/groups/photopigs/discuss/72157651060404195/
We found the sulphurs at Etowah River Park this week! Big Cloudless sulphurs love red flowers - and they were feasting on patches of Cardinal flower in the wildflowers near the river (towering wild sunflowers and purple verbena were everywhere - I'll post them tomorrow). Cardinal flowers are a definite wetland wildflower species and will grow down in cattail sloughs. We have a wild one in the wet area near our back gate. I think we saw more sulphurs in one day than we've seen all Summer.
Happy Butterfly Friday!
The bright "dots" were gnats; taken at the Sunset View, a lookout point in the south rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.
Wishing y'all a healthy and happy weekend, always appreciated your visit/comments/faves! 💖💐
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Happy Monday, everyone! Another simple butterfly from the garden. This time a Cloudless Sulphur enjoying the nectar and Summer sun. A little warmth to start the week.
Last bit of daylight at Horseshoe Bend. I don't usually go for the trophy shot, but my good friend Andrew (you know who you are) told me that I had to go shoot this, and since he's the VP for life I thought I'd give it a try. Got here just as the sun was disappearing.
Taken when we were in Winona for the Beethoven Festival in July. We had dinner at a golf course where there was a huge flower garden and as it was towards evening, some bees and butterflies flitted around for a late feeding. They were slower than usual which gave me a chance for some clear and detailed photos. Loved that!
Please correct me if I’m wrong about the ID. I don’t shoot many butterflies.
Thank you flickr friends for stopping by……Pat..xo
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Well….
I have some bad news (for me actually not you). I broke three bones in my ankle on August 16, surgery with hardware on the 22nd. I had finished a class at our sports club, felt kind of faint so I leaned against a wall and next thing I knew was I was flat on my back and looking into faces peering down at me.
So, I’m at home with a wonderful caregiver Richard and at this point I’m mostly in bed…it takes so much energy to do anything plus the dr wanted me to keep my leg elevated for much of two weeks.
I have a long recovery ahead of me, three months until I can stand up with both feet on the ground.
Probably means I’ll be on flickr more😁
A trip to Northumberland will always yield something interesting to point the camera at! When I first turned up I was a bit unsure with what to do as there was no clouds… and i usually prefer high tide here… thankfully being there before the sun rose worked well… those of you who know my photography will know I shy away from having the sun directly in my shots… especially sunrises! The patterns of light and dark of the wet sand jumped out at me and I managed this and another couple of compositions before the fire ball turned up!
Phoebis sennae caterpillar munching away on one of its host plants, Candlestick (Senna alata)
Howard County Conservancy
Mt. Pleasant
Woodstock, Maryland
Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly with Petunia. . Adult butterflies are strongly attracted to red flowers.
Full frame. Dedicated macro lens. No crop. No post processing.
Yellow medium sized butterfly with the brown spots indicating a female.They’re often too fast to get a good look at.
The Cloudless Sulphur butterfly (Phoebis sennae) is a common, widely distributed species in the United States.
Wings are uniform yellow in color, with some brown and white spots on females. You can distinguish Cloudless Sulphurs from the Clouded Sulphur (Colius philodice), by their lack of black edging on the topsides of their wings.
The Cloudless is also larger than the Clouded Sulphur.
Butterflies, like birds and other animals, need food, water, and shelter, the basic necessities of life. In addition, butterflies like direct sunlight, and heat. A good butterfly garden should provide both sunny places and shady places where butterflies can cool off while they eat. They also need shelter from wind, and inclement weather.
A female Cloudless sulphur @ Gibbs Gardens in October. They continue in our yard most days (77o today) on my Torch sunflowers. Haven't seen a Monarch in a few ... but they are still being reported passing thru North Georgia on Journey North. The weather has been GREAT for the late ones to get through!
Picture of the sunset above the dunes of nature park "Het Zwanenwater" near the dutch town of Callantsoog.
A big female sulphur on a red zinnia in our yard - they love red flowers! I'm having computer problems ... my husband asked if there would be 6 Days of Christmas Butterflies??
CHRISTMAS STORY: "Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid." Luke 2
>> YOUR PHOTOS: Damian Rezamink has so many pretty butterflies (and odes) over in the UK ... Brimstone's are one of my favorites! flic.kr/p/2mMrjKx
These big sulphurs are by far our most common butterflies right now. They love red blossoms ... this male was on the zinnias @ Gibbs Gardens.
MONARCH Update 10-13/14-22: another couple of BIG days with Monarchs passing through - and ours joining them! We released 4 yesterday, and have at least 5 eclosing today. Migrants are appearing over our roof to stop on our 9-11 ft tall Torch flowers with timely orange blossoms and on our butterfly bushes. It's been a great October for Monarchs!
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