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I was pleased to see this beautiful male while out walking a gravel road. Yesterday I saw at least 15 species of butterflies; today I saw at least six species I didn't see yesterday, including three sulphurs I rarely see: this cloudless sulphur and one or two others, a little yellow that didn't stick around long, and a dainty sulphur (which I haven't seen for several years) that refused to pause for a photo at all.
Cloudless Sulphur, (Phoebis sennae) chrysalis affixed to the Casalpiniaceae family- Sicklepod (Senna obtusifolia), 10/24/2022, the Landings Sparrow Field “Pollinator Garden Berm,” Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga.
BTW, Sicklepod is one of the Sennas that serve as a host plant (larval food source)
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Part of Teesdale's industrial legacy, spoil heaps from the disused Lodge Sike lead mine in the Hudes Hope valley, in strong summer sunshine under a cloudless deep blue sky.
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A very windy day at Woolacombe beach, Devon, UK. Taken just before I fell in the sea fully clothed and got my phone soaked so that it went into factory mode.
Phoebis sennae
Another species I have raised in my kitchen window since discovering them on a client's Cassia tree.
This butterfly had just emerged from its chrysalis on its left. The softest shade of butter yellow color; truly a delicate beauty.
The pattern shown in the photo of the underside of the wings does not carry through to the upper side of the wings, they are solid yellow.
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) chrysalis.
Ladera Ranch, California, USA.
July 18, 2014.
Here's the same chrysalis after having a couple of days to mature.
Previous photo, taken just a half hour after caterpillar began to transition to chrysalis:
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had to make a few minor modifications from the videos to make it fit together, next step getting the pieces in the right colors ordered, it looks great in my head...
(original - mine)
blue - black
light bley - light bley
white - dark bley
dark red - orange
dark blue - Bright Light Orange
MK4_5884 Llyn Brianne: Reservoir, Dam and HillTop.
Photographed on a sunny but not cloudless day, on the 10th August 2017.
www.enchantedtowy.co.uk/llyn_brianne_and_the_upper_towy.htm
This set includes photographs of the Towy Valley just below the dam and down to Rhandirmwyn.
More general photographs at www.flickr.com/photos/staneastwood/albums
These big, showy sulphurs are our most common butterfly now but they are hard to photograph - flitting away just as you get them in focus! And exposure can be a killer too as with all sulphurs. I saw about a dozen butterfly species at the wetlands yesterday. A Gulf fritillary has been all alone in my flower garden here at home. Goldenrod is beginning to brown but the purple gerardia is still glorious all over the wetlands.
wetlands, Georgia
I was blessed to get a few shots of this beauty out front while laying eggs. That's the only time they stay still enough for me ...
Cloudless Sulphur
Phoebis sennae
(Linnaeus) (Insecta:
Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Coliadinae)
The 100 degree weather took a sabbatical this week allowing for reasonable comfort while at Shelby Farms, Memphis, Tn. Friday afternoon. The nice Sulphur was fluttering about the colorful landscaping at the visitors center near Patriot Lake.
This was a pleasant distraction from some of the crowds at the Hummingbird Festival on the grounds of the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Then, a storm rolled in and I ducked for cover with camera equipment around me.
Cloudless Sulphur, (Phoebis sennae) larva (last instar) on host plant, Sicklepod (Senna obtusifolia), 9/30/2013, The Landing's Sparrow Field, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Chatham Co, Ga.
I haven't posted photos in a while due to the busy-ness of exam season. Still have one to go and a paper to write.
I didn't want to post another from my vacation... too lazy to write a decent description for it. So I'm posting a shot from the Ektar roll that I uploaded from a while ago.
This was taken at the summer carnival in Barrie. That sky... what a beauty eh? Cloudless!
[Kodak Ektar 100 f/11]
I've rarely seen the top side of a Cloudless sulphur - they never pose with their wings open.
Sunday prayers: I'm in a duck mood this week ... and pray that all of you are well and have a blessed Sunday.
Somethin' Grand
Performed by Medeleine Peyroux
Wide awake
Breath taken
I'm shaken by my sight
Couldn't sleep
Couldn't keep
Quiet secrets on the wind I hear
There's somethin' grand coming
Cool lumming
Through my empty city
On a night breeze so free lovers must collide
And the morning sun must rise
All is forgiven
Cool your heads
Highway men
Come what name in
Who run and fight
Here's your drink
Time to think
Soon you'll wandering away your fears
There's somethin' grand coming
Cool strumming
Through my empty city
'til the morning breaks
and the weary eyes are clear
Let the dreams of sleep take troubles far away from me
All is forgiven
Cloudless Morning at Devils Tower
Cropped from a my 645 slide
This was one of those I went back and forth on about posting this. It's not my best shot from my trip out west by any means. There were no dramatic skies. But, hiking the trail that morning to the sound of thousands of prairie dogs warning others about your presence makes shooting this worth it.
BTW, wasn't there supposed to be some landing strip around here? I never saw one, Just a large field of ornery prairie dogs.
Taken witha Mamiya 645. 35mm lens, Kodak Ektachrome 100VS. Cropped using GIMP
Cloudless Sulphur - Phoebis sennae - is one of several native, large, brightly colored yellow butterflies much in evidence locally in late summer and early fall. This particular species is very common in the southeastern U.S. (from Argentina north), invading northward every year, sometimes reaching Canada by late summer (though this can very from year to year). Also occasional visitor to the American Southwest. Habitats mainly disturbed open areas including parks, yards, gardens, beaches, road edges, abandoned fields, and scrub. Flight is strong and rapid and is often high off the ground. They perch with their wings closed, only showing their upper wings in flight. Males patrol with rapid flight, searching for receptive females. Flies most of the year in the deep south (3-4 broods, with 1-2 broods elsewhere). Above the male is bright yellow while the female is greenish white, bright yellow, or pinkish orange. On the wings below - visible when at rest - both sexes have cell-end spots on the forewing and hindwing, often the only marking on males. Females show a characteristic broken line leading to the tip of the forewing. Larval foodplants are Cassia species in the pea family (Fabaceae). Adults take nectar from many different flowers with long tubes including cordia, bougainvilla, cardinal flower, hibiscus, lantana, and wild morning glory. Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America. www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Phoebis-sennae bugguide.net/node/view/501