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Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) larva on Fabaceae family, Christmas Senna (Senna bicapsularis), 9/19/2018, , The Landing’s Sparrow Field, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Chatham Co., Ga.
As I was leaving for the nature center yesterday, this Cloudless sulphur posed for me in the lantana - she didn't run from me when I was in the car. Our lantana doesn't like the cool temps we've been having.
At the nature center I saw:
Cloudless sulphurs
Sleepy Oranges - some brown, some bright yellow
Gulf frits
C. Buckeyes
Monarch - 1 old
Pipevine Swallowtail - surprised to see a swallowtail!
Long-tailed skipper - 1
C. Checkered-skippers
Fiery skippers
Mystery skippers
Phoebis sennae. The flower is a flame acanthus, Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii, at the Wildflower Center, Austin.
9/6/21 - Blue Heaven Road, Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, AZ; what the third strongest monsoon on record in SE Arizona will do
Reeds near the pond. They was very tall, about 4,5-4 m., so we can feel between them like beetles in the grass ;)
I have been wanting to figure out how to combine a magnetic poem with another photo. I use Lightroom to process photos. I don't have PhotoShop and I'm not educated in how to use it. Last year I began using Krita to make digital paintings. It seems like a good open source editor. However, the tutorials available online are scarce and not always helpful. I have trouble learning from a video, which typically moves too quickly for me to absorb. If you've never used a transparency mask, it's hard to understand how it works.
Well, today I taught myself how to (1) add colours to the image of the poem, (2) add another photo as a transparency layer, and (3) make it more or less transparent to combine with the poem. My sense of colour and texture extends well beyond photography and is practically innate! The result is clumsy, but I'm satisfied in understanding the basic tools so I can improve.
The scene is Poplar Bluff Beach where I grew up on the north shore of Lake Erie. The photo was taken on May 10, 2008, the day of my mother's memorial gathering. She had died in February. Relatives didn't want to hold it outdoors in May because the weather was too unpredictable. But May was Mom's favourite month and I insisted. The day was still and cloudless with a high of 18C/64F, warmer than usual for early May.
San Diego from Old Point Loma Lighthouse. Both San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean can be seen from Old Point Loma Lighthouse, which sits more than 400 feet above the water on the peninsula on the west side of San Diego Bay. This view to the east shows the Cabrillo statue at Cabrillo National Monument near the left side; beyond it are North Island Naval Air Station, downtown San Diego, and the Laguna Mountains. A helicopter can be seen above North Island NAS, just below the mountain ridge.
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese navigator in service of Spain, landed at San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542, leading the first European exploration party in what is now the West Coast of the United States. Cabrillo National Monument began as a half-acre authorized in 1913; it now occupies over 140 acres, and includes Old Point Loma Lighthouse. Both lighthouse and Cabrillo National Monument are on the National Register of Historic Places (listings 74000350 and 66000224, respectively).
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Phoebis sennae. The flower is a Salvia of some kind. A few days ago at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin.
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) # 2 on host plant, Fabaceae- Sicklepod (Senna obtusifolia), 10/27/2023, The Landings Sparrow Field “Pollinator Garden Berm”, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga.
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebus sennae)
Canon 100mm macro f 2.8
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#367 on Explore 8-4-2009
I had been trying to get one of these against a darker background, as opposed to all the 'clutter' among flowers. Of all I've done I prefer this one the best. Photographed in The Dixon Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee.
Rather boring, but I liked the delicate colour gradation. It would have been even better with a Sigma Foveon sensor, but I didn't have one of those cameras with me.
Parque Nacional Carara, Provincia de Puntarenas, Tarcoles, Costa Rica
21-03-2022
Scientific classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Pieridae
Genus:Phoebis
Species:P. sennae
Binomial name
Phoebis sennae
Phoebis sennae, the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas. There are several similar species such as the yellow angled-sulphur (Anteos maerula), which has angled wings, statira sulphur (Aphrissa statira), and other sulphurs, which are much smaller. The species name comes from the genus Senna to which many of the larval host plants belong.
Distribution
Their range is wide, from South America to southern Canada, in particular southwestern Ontario.
They are most common from Argentina to southern Texas, Georgia, and Florida, but are often visitors outside this range becoming more rare further north.
Habitat
The common habitats of this butterfly are open spaces, gardens, glades, seashores, and watercourses.
...nectaring on Jewelweed.
Cloudless Sulphurs are large fast flying butterflies with males being particularly dizzying flyers as they search for females. Wing span is 2 1/4 - 3 1/8 inches (5.7 - 8 cm). Males are yellow with no markings on the upper side of the wings and faint spots underneath. Females are yellow above with black marginal spots, while the spots underneath are more prominent and noticeable than on males.
Permanent resident from Argentina north to southern Texas and the Deep South. Regular visitor and occasional colonist in most of the Southwest and the northern United States from the Midwest into New England, and sometimes as far north as Ontario, Canada. But many years it can be rare or non-existent in its northern range.
Flight season is year around in the Deep South; may have one flight in late summer in other southern states; immigrants to northern states in August or September usually do not reproduce. As the weather cools in autumn, adults begin a return migration back to the Deep South to overwinter.
Adult butterflies nectar from many different flowers, but prefer those with long tubes such as cordia, bougainvilla, cardinal flower, trumpet vine, hibiscus, lantana, wild morning glory, and jewelweed.
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .002 seconds (1/500) focal length 300mm
Eines meiner " Haustür-Motive".
Habe eine Weile überlegt ob ich das Bild einstelle, finde es fehlt der Aufnahme irgendwie ein Blickfang..ist fast langweilig..oder ?
Callaway Gardens, Georgia
Callaway had butterflies galore yesterday including four swallowtail species and many others. It was HOT and humid though. And the first Great spangled fritillary of the year showed up in our yard. I'll be posting photos all week.
I'll also be admin'ing the 3 Galleries including picks-of-the-day - so get your best butterfly, dragonfly & moth shots in!
Happy Butterfly Monday!!!
Spring has sprung in Central Florida me thinks! Thankful to see a few butterflies in God's garden. Thank you, Jesus.
Thanks for your visit and comment!!!
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Just the smallest smudge of fluffly cloud. could have "shopped" it out, butt thought it was a nice foil to the otherwise unreal blue sky. This was up on teh golf course on Ashton Court estate and one of teh regular walking spots for Carpet and me.
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) male, 12/9/2022, The Landing’s Sparrow Field, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga.
I took this photo of the airplane just when it passed through the amazingly empty, cloudless sky...
What? The bus? Oh it just happened to be right there, I have no choice but to include it in.