I believe that is the name of this yellow butterfly at the Desert Botanical Garden.

In the Dixon Gardens there were numerous Coneflowers in full bloom. However, some of the main species of butterflies are slow in arriving this season.

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I have a hard time distinguishing between the various small, yellow butterflies. But maybe I got this one right?

Magnolia Plantation Garden

Charleston, South Carolina

I hate cloudless skies, but sometime you just gotta work with what you have in front of you. Taken east of Innisfail/Bowden, Alberta, along hwy 791.

Sleepy Orange and Cloudless Sulfur size difference. Ault Park 9/12/18

These are the only butterflies I'm seeing the rest are gone until this spring.

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Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly

Genova, finalmente senza nuvole…

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Female butterfly. Naples, Florida

The Cloudless Sulphur, Phoebis sennae (Linnaeus), is one of the most common and attractive Florida butterflies. I read the following..... 'it's genus name is derived from Phoebe the sister of Apollo, a god of Greek and Roman mythology'.....suits this beautiful butterfly :)

A cloudless, clear, mid-August sunset. There was hardly a cloud in the sky this day and the atmosphere was quite clean with not much haze. Because of that, the sun was too bright to glance at even as it sets. Despite the clear conditions here, the marine layer, or low clouds and fog, had hugged the coastline. Pic taken from around San Jose, CA. It was a warm day this day with afternoon highs reaching up into the upper 80s for our area. (Saturday around sunset, August 16, 2014; 7:54 p.m.)

Fred W. Coyle Freedom Park, Naples, Florida - 17th November, 2018

This photo was really fun to take, though a little bit messy.

I don't ofteen take self potraits but here you go. I am trying/thinking of doing more self portraits.

I just found this Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar today (9/18/20) here in North Georgia-Atlanta Metro while out with my dog. It was on the road and seems a bit sluggish. I think it might be ready to pupate.

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nectaring on Cuphea v. "David Verity". i root a cpl of cuttings during the growing season each year so i'll have at least a few plants to haul in and out for the winter hummingbirds and occasional butterfly. Happy Thanksgiving, y'all. finding a cpl of these in your yard on turkey day is pretty nice. hope yours was equally rewarding. ;)

120 seconds @ f11 | 200 ISO | 18mm | hitech 0.9 GND + B&W ND110

Last night as I was getting ready to go for a swim (in an indoor pool I should add) I looked at the sky, fairly clear with a handful of interesting clouds hanging around. Decission made i chucked the camera in the boot and planned on stopping off at Blyth Beach. With high tide due about an hour after sunset I decided beach shots were out of the question so headed for the harbour. What I didnt expect was for those clouds to have all but dissapered with the last remnants somewhere over the north west and virtually out of my view. Time for the 10 stopper me thinks.

Another from the parking lot of the Columbus Zoo - somewhat different than the day before.

...nectaring on late blooming Evening Primrose.

ISO400, aperture f/8, exposure .001 seconds (1/800) focal length 300mm

Talk about Camouflage. This girl looks like the leaf she is own so much. Not only is she the same color, she has spots that match the ones on the leaf. If I had not seen her actually land on the leaf I would have walked right past her.

Taken in my back yard,

Lake Wales, Florida.

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly, butterfly pavilion, Albuquerque Botanical Gardens.

Not the greatest shot and the edge of the leaf is a rather distracting smudge cutting across the image - but I have never captured one of these before and I was bound and determined to get the shot. At first I only caught a glimpse of yellow among the leaves so I leaned out over the rail to get a better look.

So there I am, leaning over the rail, twisted to the right to get a view of the butterfly on the leaf that is mostly turned away from me, camera up so I can't brace myself on anything to keep from falling over - when someone puts their hand on my back and says "what do you see?" Really?????

So I take 3 quick shots before I do a header over the rail, stand up and turn to find my good friend, Linda, who of course wants to see the butterfly and I suddenly find that I have turned in to the temporary tour guide when all the other people in the area want to see too. Three minutes later everyone has gone their own way, I am back to taking pictures and all is well with the world :) Weird.

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Falcon Lake State Park, Starr County Texas

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

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Date: December 13, 2020

Location: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center - Grasonville, Maryland (Queen Anne's County)

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Callaway Gardens, Georgia

from November

It was a lovely day for a stroll along Eastbourne seafront.

Photographed in the Dixon Gardens.

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Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) female, 8/19/2022, The Landings Sparrow Field “Pollinator Garden Berm”, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga.

Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) female nectaring Lamiaceae- Scarlet Sage (Salvia coccinea),10/7/2020, The Landing’s Sparrow Field “Pollinator Garden Berm”, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga.

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Welcombe Mouth,on a cloudless evening !

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I loved the zebra longwing sneaking up behind in this shot :)

At the Butterfly Jungle at the Safari Park in Escondido, California, 4/3/12.

You can read more about it here: www.sdzsafaripark.org/butterflyjungle/

It's a once a year event here in Southern California.

Thanks to Tom Halliwell for giving me an id on this male Cloudless sulphur! There were quite a few of them flying at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in St. Petersburg.

Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) ♂ feeding on Red Salvia (Salvia coccinea). These butterflies prefer to nectar on flowers with long tubes. They are permanent residents of Argentina and northward to the Eastern United States. Caterpillars like to feed on Cassia and other members of the pea family.

Photographed with a Canon EOS 7D, 300mm f/2.8 IS USM L lens, and 1.4x Teleconverter.

Phoebis sennae. The flower is a Salvia of some kind.

cloudless sulphur

Phoebis sennae, a little the worse for wear. I don't know the name of the pink flower. Zilker Gardens, Austin.

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A view west along Middle Side, near Middleton in Teesdale, on a fine early summer morning. Hawthorn bushes in full flower with some clumps of Wood Cranesbill adding colour to the verge. Bell Farm in the disatnce.