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Anaea eurypyle, Pointed Leafwing, 2018 Oct 26, Napo, Ecuador, JGlassberg, Sunstreak Tours butterflies
The underside of this butterfly is such a lifelike representation of a dead leaf that when the wings are closed the camouflage effect makes it very difficult to detect. But as soon as those wings open, well there's no missing it!
If the warning coloration isn't enough, this butterfly has another trick, that of cryptic coloration which gives it the ability to look like a dead leaf.
Tiger Leafwing butterfly
Shapaja, San Martín, Peru
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Various butterflies at a feeder, mostly common morphos (strikingly blue) but including an orion cecropian, malachites, tiger leafwing, and a yellow-fronted owl-butterfly as well. Taken at the butterfly garden, within Ecocentro Danaus, about 2 km east of La Fortuna. It's one of the best places in the area for wildlife viewing.
Anaea andria
Here's the best shot I could get of the bright orange upper wing.
What a shock it was to find this species in Knox County! Perhaps the farthest east documented for Tennessee, there were at least three of these butterflies at Forks of the River Wildlife Management Area. Seen by Mike Nelson and myself during the Knox County Spring Bird Count.
I know these have been found in middle and west Tennessee, but not in the east.
Forks of the River WMA, Knox County, TN
Forks of the River WMA, Knox County, TN
Anaea andria. These butterflies are drab below but bright red above. They usually keep their wings folded to look like dead leaves, but with the backlighting here a little of the upper wing color shows through.
Photographed at Skipout Lake, Unit 61, Black Kettle National Grassland, Oklahoma, on 4 October 2014.
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With a Jazzy Leafwing, a Rusty Tip, a Silver Spot, a Doris Longwing, a Blue Morpho, a Malachite and a Variable Cracker in hand, students from Hiatt Middle School carefully released butterflies at Reiman Gardens on this week followed by a tour of the grounds and the entomology lab. Through a partnership with the @chrysalis_foundation students have been learning to use film cameras with photography instructor Dan Troxell. He says, “This photography program is about giving students the greatest opportunities to help them grow and to teach self-esteem. It offers them exposure to something new that they wouldn’t normally have access to, and it’s an absolute pure joy for me to do that.”
Hiatt’s Jamie Wilkens explains, "Our goal this year was to build a community where the students felt comfortable to have new experiences and to have them thinking about what their future might look like."
A butterfly release might just be the perfect metaphor for those formative middle school years. Wilkens adds, “These butterflies have been through a very transformative time and now they’re being released, and it’s the same with middle school. By the time they leave, we want them to be able to fly.”
To read more about the programs, visit: www.chrysalisfdn.org or www.facebook.com/thebutterflyeffectindesmoines/
(Jon Lemons/Des Moines Public Schools)