The underside of the wings are brownish/orange with elongated silvery white spots. Adults are migrating southward to frost-free portions of their range (Southern U.S. south through Mexico, Central America, West Indies, and parts of South America).

May be a bit old and tattered...still beautiful!

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San Marcos, Hays County, Texas

“Every natural action is graceful.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Just natural bokeh from the swamp; no texture.

I was thrilled to see this beauty was still hanging around when I visited the swampy area today. Flower is iron weed.

I can't get close enough with my micro lens for this beauty; it is elusive so I use a telephoto.

Color light reflections in the Gulf from the Galveston's Pleasure Pier.

Castellammare del Golfo and the Golfo di Castellammare on the Tyrrhenian Sea, Trapani provence in Sicily.

Griechenland 2000

Mamiya 7II, Objektiv 4,5/150 mm

Kodak TMY 400

Print auf Kentmere Fineprint VC mit Moersch ECO 4812

Selentonung MT 1, 1+9, 1:10 min

Agraulis vanillae

The day begins on a Galveston, Texas, beach.

Gulf of Genoa. Ligurian Apennines and Ligurian Alps

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Gulf Fritillary butterfly on backyard zinnia - Morgan County, Alabama -

July 12, 2022

Emerson Point Preserve, Palmetto, Florida

The Gulf fritillary, Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus), is a brightly colored butterfly common across extreme southern portions of the United States.

Exploring a patch of weeds.

Migration is on along the texas Gulf Coast.

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Agraulis vanillae