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My first butterfly of 2022 was a Goatweed Leafwing. They overwinter as adults and in the absence of flowers end up feeding on sap, rotting fruit and scat.
Leafwing butterfly
Rio Shilcayo, Tarapoto, San MartĂn, Peru
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The Jazzy Leafwing butterfly, Hypna clytemnestra, is a lot more cryptic than it is conspicuous. Native to Central America, the species is on exhibit in Butterfly Magic at the Tucson Botanical Gardens.
Unfortunately this individual had become entangled in the overly-sticky butterfly bait and was found dead. This photo was taken after unsuccessful attempt to revive it.
Why mess with flowers, when you can get so much more nourishment from words?
This is the Indian Leafwing, this time not in disguise, but with wings open.
Various butterflies at a feeder, mostly common morphos (strikingly blue) but including an orion cecropian, malachite, 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.
Tropical Leafwing (Anaea aidea) butterfly at Turkey Creek, Emma Long Metropolitan Park, Austin, TX April 26, 2017.
Butterflies in the Glasshouse, RHS Wisley, Surrey, UK......
Royal Horticultural Society Show Garden......
26Jan2012
Goatweed Leafwing at the North Roosevelt Trap, Roosevelt Co., NM, 101003. Anaea andria. Nymphalidae: Charaxinae