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The butterfly species, Cloudless Sulphur, Phoebis sennae, has been expanding its range in California in recent years. We had not seen one over our property until about 2015, then a few more sightings as the years progressed. Our neighbor, Rich, down the street, has a mature Senna didymobotrya, African or Popcorn Senna bush, on which Cloudless Sulphurs lay eggs and he has had caterpillars in the previous two years. So we planted a Senna and in Oct., 2020 we began to see an adult flying daily through our yard, often over the 1.5 ft. Senna plant. We found the first caterpillar on Dec. 30, then two more over the next week. As the caterpillars matured, I cut the stem they were on and brought them indoors to watch them progress. Each formed a chrysalis and two of the three eclosed perfectly and eventually flew as adult butterflies.
Morro Bay, California
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Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae eubule) at Patuxent Research Refuge, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Last post for October ... our yard has been full of butterflies on my Tithonia blossoms up to 14 ft tall! Sulphurs galore, Gulf fritillaries and one last Monarch yesterday when ATL hit 85oF. Tonight we have a frost warning - not a single butterfly today. I think the Monarch headed south on strong NW winds. Have a safe night ... from N Georgia
A Cloudless Sulphur butterfly (Phoebis sennae.) on a Vinca plant in my garden. A midsized butterfly in the family Pieridae found only in North and South America.
Stopping to refuel on her long migratory journey to the south. This was one of my last butterfly sightings for the 2016 season. Backyard photography.
This female cloudless sulphur would fly off to a nearby tree each time I approached her on the flowers. She sat so still in the tree that even up close I had trouble finding her among the leaves. Nature's camouflage at its best!
A Cloudless Sulphur taken at Reynolds Nature Preserve, Morrow County, Georgia, USA on the 25th August 2015.
Cloudless sunrises are the horror of every photographer. However, on the opposite horizon there is usually a pastel-colored pink color that harmonized wonderfully with the snow mountains. Fortunately, this was the only day of my Iceland vacation that it didn't storm, so I was able to use the drone.
Sun is now setting just off the north shore of Hay Bay and we can just see it from our neighbours dock as it disappears below the horizon.
blogged here: djenglandphotography.blogspot.com/2020/10/photo-of-week-2...
Cloudless sunsets are generally not too spectacular, but the hazy sky over Dubai shines in the most beautiful colors about half an hour after sunset
I think this is a Cloudless Sulphur but it could possibly be an Orange Sulphur. I have real trouble telling them apart.
Everything was in the right place, at the right moment. Except for clouds...cloudless sunsets are so boooring :D
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This is a picture of a Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar at Lake Waterford Park in Pasadena, Maryland.
Round Bay Quad
A larger butterfly this time, similar in size to a Brimstone and almost identical colour. Flew at speed and rarely stopped with all the sun around fueling its flight.
This image is included in a gallery "Favourite Landscapes" curate by MK Hardy.
The sidelit basalt columns look wonderful against a cloudless blue sky above and the reflections on Jacksons Creek.
The hexagonal basalt columns known as the "Organ Pipes" which sit in the bed of the creek is of the order of 70 metres (230 ft) high.
The Organ Pipes National Park, abbreviated as OPNP, is a national park located in the Central region of Victoria, Australia. The 121-hectare (300-acre) protected area was established with the focus on conservation of the native flora and fauna, and preservation of the geological features in the Jacksons Creek, a part of the Maribyrnong valley, north-west of Melbourne. It is situated in a deep gorge in the grassy, basalt Keilor plains.
Within Organ Pipes National Park, the valley walls of Jacksons Creek expose Pleistocene volcanic rocks of the New Volcanic Group. These 2.5 to 2.8 million year-old basalt lavas, commonly known as "trap rock," fractured during cooling into vertically standing, hexagonal basalt columns. These columns are locally known as the "organ pipes" for which this park is named. Over the last one to two million years, the slow cutting by Jackson Creek of its valley down into the basaltic plains and through the underlying trap rock exposed these geological structures. The bottom of the valley of Jackson Creek also exposes a prehistoric buried creek valley, which is cut into 400 million year-old (Silurian) mudstones and sandstones. The bottom of this buried valley contains ancient creek gravel. Both the ancient river valley and the Silurian sedimentary rock lies buried beneath the basaltic volcanic rocks of the New Volcanic Group. Marine fossils that are found in the Silurian sedimentary rocks demonstrate that they accumulated beneath a prehistoric ocean.
A Friends’ group, (the first in Australia) the "Friends of Organ Pipes" (FOOPS), comprising conservation activists to support the efforts of rehabilitation of the OPNP’s indigenous flora and fauna, supplemented the work of the Victoria Park system under which the OPNP was declared a National Park. The park's importance to the whole region as a "center for education about the geology, flora and fauna of the Keilor Plains, and the restoration of degraded land" is important. With its inclusion in the IUCN Category III (Natural Monuments) of the United Nations’ list of National Parks and Protected Areas, there is a greater recognition of the need to protect or preserve outstanding natural features. (Sourced from Internet)