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It was hanging on the netting on my back deck. You can't really tell from this picture but this is a very large butterfly.
Two identical solar panels, one run open voltage and one run short circuit current. Multiply together and add in the efficiency of the panels and the collecting area and you can infer watts per square meter
Ok the focus is not spot on... I know, but I did have to lie on my stomach in wet grass to shoot this 1" butterfly.....I'm immortalising it on flickr.
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) males nectarine Lamiaceae, Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana), 9/4/2016, The Landing's Sparrow Field, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Chatham Co., Ga.,
"Poor Man's Beach", Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
My brother cannot get home soon enough. I need my camera!
Phoebis sennae. The flower is a Turk's cap, common in shady areas in Central Texas. Government Canyon State Natural Area near San Antonio.
Phoebis sennae My garden. Houston, Texas. May 2008.
from "Verses On a Butterfly" by Joseph Warton -
"...For thee, gay queen of insects! do we rove
From walk to walk, from beauteous grove to grove;
And let the critics know, whose pedant pride
And awkward jests our sprightly sport deride:
That all who honours, fame, or wealth pursue,
Change but the name of things--they hunt for you."
2018-08-19 - Sunday:
The day with the fewest clouds in themorning so far. Looking forward to breakfast, reading, beach, reading, dinner ;-)
Cloudless Sulphur larva on host-plant Senna obtusifolia, Sicklepod, 8/09/2012,Sparrow Field, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Chatham Co, Ga.
This larva was on an underside of a leaf on the Sicklepod stem. It blends in beautifully with the leaf color. It was located by my 6 year old Grandson George, a great bugger. ( I rearranged the larva on the stem to acquire a lateral view)
Cloudless Sulpher (Phoebis Sennae). Caterpillar feeding on the blossom of a Senna mexicana var. chapmanii (Chapman's wild sensitive plant)
The caterpillar colors varies with the plant part it is eating. They are green when they eat the leaves, but if they eat the flower buds they turn yellow.
This is what happens when the Cloudless Sulphur caterpillar eats the flowers of a Cassia/ Senna with red blossoms. The normally green caterpillar turns pink!
tinkering on the new d200.
i was walking along exhibitions ave.
when i took this shot with a Sigma 28-70mm autofocus lens.
there are no special filters nor graphic manipulation
other than the rotation and resize of ACDsee photoeditor.
A male Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) on Fire Flag (Thalia geniculata).
Coconut Creek | Florida
I started planting more native plants around the yard, and noticed an increasing variety of insects stopping by for a visit.
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This is a shot to the north. You can further see there are clouds to the north but nothing over head.
Also notice the ground and none of the cars appear to be wet. When I left the house the ground was wet but by time I moved about a block most everything already evaporated. In fact, my windshield was completely dry by the time I got to work.
Oh, and my car rests under a carport at my house so that's proof it did rain a bit after I left the house. In fact, the rain quit when I was around 11th St.
Cloudless Sulphur, (Phoebis sennae) female, 10/31/2013, The Landing's Sparrow Field, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Chatham Co, Ga
Model: Lois
"Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?"
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Santa Anna National Wildlife Refuge, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA.
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The White Angled Sulphur or Ghost Tropical Brimestone,
Anteos clorinde, is a representative of a genus of
fast‐flying pierid butterflies that have undersides that
are good examples of leaf‐mimicking camouflage. The
adults are avid flower feeders and travel great distances.
This species will occasionally migrate north from
the tropics and end up as strays here in the Dallas area.
The caterpillars feed on Senna spectabilis. Species in the genus Phoebis are called Giant Sulphurs, and like Anteos are fast and wary. We often get the Cloudless Sulphur (Ph. sennae) and Orange‐barred Sulphur
(Ph. philea) and they prefer red and pink flowers
to nectar on. Like the angled sulphurs the caterpillars
feed on Senna and Cassia sp. Male sulphurs butterflies
have a very agreeable perfume scent produced by androconial
scales on the forwings.