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Cloudless Sulphurs worship the sun and love flower nectar and are often attracted to red tubular flowers.
This individual is a female. In Hidalgo County females have large spots and they are deep yellow, almost orange with orange/pink edging. At first glance they may be mistaken for Orange-barred Sulphurs (Phoebis philea), but the broken band on the forewing of this butterfly points to a Cloudless Sulphur.
A week ago in our yard in North Georgia - one of two Cloudless sulphurs in my red salvia and pink snapdragons nectaring on bat-faced cuphea. These flowers bloom now only because they are tucked inside on cold nights.
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving ... pray pray pray for our country
This First-of-Year female turned out to be the one and only this year. I spotted her laying eggs on Senna, her host plant and afterwards she rested briefly on this Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) close to the ground where she was almost invisible among the fallen brown leaves. Notice the palps and her eye being half yellow and half brown.
Cloudless Sulphurs are usually fall migrants arriving from the south in late summer. In the past couple of years however, they started to overwinter in the Washington area showing up in early spring, but this year they were notably missing in spring after we had an unusually cold winter. They also did not seem to undertake their usual fall migration north as in the past. I saw only one male zipping by in Washington DC. (males are pale lemony green so it is possible to distinguish them from females even in flight)
Cloudless sunset over Mobile Bay, as the cold winds blow in. Hard to believe it's getting this cold already. I mean, sure it's coming up on Thanksgiving, but still. I prefer the warmer weather! None of the usual brigade of herons was present, just me, the wind, and the sun.
Under a cloudless sky, ÖBB ‘nightjet’ liveried Siemens Taurus Class 1216, No.1216 012 is pictured passing through Lorenzenberg (between Grafing and Rosenheim) leading EuroCity service EC87, the 11:34 departure from Munich to Venice.
Cloudless - A cloudless June morning dawns across Ribblesdale, with a pure blue sky above the Ingleborough Massif.
Park Fell, Simon Fell and Ingleborough appear majestic in early morning light across the impressive limestone pavement of Runscar Scar. Classic Yorkshire Dales in all its morning glory.
Ribblesdale, Yorkshire Dales National Park
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Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky.
excerpt from Echoes - Pink Floyd
These big yellow sulphurs become our most common butterfly as Fall progresses. This female was shot on my Tithonia in our North Georgia yard.
Happy Butterfly Friday!
Half Dome from Glacier Point probably a little before Noon. Glacier Point is located on the south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of 7,214 feet, Half Dome is just under 9,000 feet in elevation. The temperature was already in the low 90's and the sky was cloudless.
Females have reddish spots; males are mostly spot-less. This individual looks to be a female.
Family Pieridae/Coliadinae
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
There is Another Sky (Emily Dickinson)
Having posted the Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly caterpillar, I just had to bring back this archive shot from three years ago...I'll never forget the shock of seeing this gorgeous one, apparently ready to form its chrysalis!
The golden yellow and electric blue was incredible! There is a yellow form that only eats the yellow flowers of the Partridge Pea host plant, along with the much more common green form that only eats the leaves...and I'm unsure if this one was the yellow form all along...
Milky Way core rising above the summit of Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, reflected in the Eibsee lake.
My first shot of the Milky Way and it took some planning! A dark sky is necessary to capture the faint light of the Milky Way so a cloudless and moonless sky is needed. We had to be there after sunset but before 10 pm as the lake is privately owned by the nearby hotel and closed to visitors at night. I used a star app to estimate the location of the Milky Way in the sky and was reasonably confident that it would be visible above the Zugspitze from the opposite side of the lake, but I wasn't expecting the core to be just above the summit, a real bonus!
It quickly darkened after sunset on the moonless night and we needed head torches to find our way. There were lots of frogs and toads on the path which weren't there during the day and we even saw a snake in the middle of the path with a suspicious bulge in its middle which we guessed was an unfortunate frog, so we were very glad to have our torches!
We found a spot by the lakeside and could hardly see the Milky Way before our eyes adjusted to the dark. I couldn't see anything in my viewfinder except for the light from the cablecar station at the top of the mountain. I blindly focused my lens manually at infinity, hoping that the stars and mountain would be in focus and took a long 25 second exposure - I was very pleased with the resulting image showing the Milky Way, the mountain and reflection in the lake, and I think the streaks in the sky are from meteors, not aircraft. On the way back the sky had darkened even more and I stopped to take another shot of the Milky Way above the trees and mountains.
Fujifilm XT3 with Samyang 12 mm F2.0 lens ISO 1600
Edited from raw image with Lightroom Classic on Macbook Air
Gibbs Gardens (North GA) looked GORGEOUS in spite of the heat this week - with these big sulphurs being the most common butterflies. Atlanta hit 97oF yesterday and we're headed for that again today - before a cool-down. Have a good Friday!
Red Mexican Bird of Paradise Blossoms.
Southwest Arizona, USA.
Full frame. No crop. No post processing.
Gibbs Gardens closes tomorrow for the Winter - so we made one last trip up there. Surprised to see 6 of these big sulphurs - but I couldn't approach them (no walking on grass) and the light was glary. Still - I wanted to document what could be the LOTY. Then yesterday hubby spotted another Cloudless fluttering thru our backyard. It hit 77o in Atlanta - a record for the day. Should be warm again today.
Enjoy the Alabama/Georgia game!!
Flickr is barely working this morning ... sorry for no views or faves or comments ... I'm not smiling.
Smile on Saturday! :-) Butterflies!
Hidden treasure! Still trying to finish my backlog of photos before I can't see anymore ... and LOOK! Oh my goodness, I never even saw that on there before. This is a Cloudless Sulphur butterfly (below my watermark), and look above my watermark ... a green larvae of the Cloudless Sulphur, Phoebis Sennae (Linnaeus). They were out front on the Senna in God's garden. How cool is that!
Smile on Saturday! :-) Butterflies!
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