Here is the Question Mark perched on some Perennial Peas just after it was released. This was a butterfly reared from a caterpillar found on June 3. The photos in this set display the development of the caterpillar over the time that it was kept it in a container. The caterpillar was provided with fresh leaves each day from the tree where it had originally been captured. The caterpillar of this butterfly is very colorful. To see the development of this butterfly from when I first found it as a small caterpillar, view the rest of the photos in the set. The container for the caterpillar was a small, inexpensive covered plastic storage container with some holes punched into the lid. It is best to clean out the container each day and to provide fresh leaves from the plant where it was found. If the caterpillars are healthy, they will eat a lot and produce a lot of frass. Leaves are kept fresh by placing the stem portion into a small plastic baggie with a water-soaked cotton ball.

"Year of the Butterfly". Okay the last several years have been somewhat sparce regarding butterflies ~ BUT NOT THIS YEAR ! I have never seen so many butterflies! The Chinese Privet in my front yard had more than 50 butterflies on it this afternoon.

Question Mark

(Polygonia interrogationis)

(Fabricius, 1798)

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Nymphalinae

Identification: Forewing hooked; upperside is red-orange with black spots. Upperside hindwing of summer form is mostly black with a short tail; that of winter form has much orange and a longer, violet-tipped tail. Underside is light brown; hindwing with pearly white question mark in center.

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Codorus State Park, Hanover, Pennsylvania

li. Markus Becker aka DJ Questionmark +++ Trancefloororganizer+++ Fusion 2006

re. DJ Maik Hotz

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What's the best way to clean your keyboard. Apparently the spray stuff that freezes your hand didn't work so well. Actually, I took this by accident.

On the arches below the M25, on the banks of the River Thames.

#86946

In Audrey's greenhouse.

Rosetta McClain Gardens, Toronto, ON

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Waiting for the rest of the group to show up, I notice the details.

A Question Mark butterfly rest on a board in my yard.

Merrimack,NH

Horseshoe Lake State Park on 9/7/13

After I took my shots of the question mark female laying a chain of eggs, I turned my head and discovered a second question mark sitting on my shoulder. They're very friendly butterflies.

When their wings are closed, they look like a dead brown leaf. When their wings are spread, you can see their colorful orange and brown markings. Their wings are lined with an iridescent silvery-blue (which just looks gray here).

Had a lot of problems with the MacBook yesterday. Spent a lot of time to overcome these. Finally, I succeeded though.

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Odd name for a butterfly

If you look closely at the underside of a Question Mark Butterfly you can see where the butterfly got it's name.

Question Mark

(Polygonia interrogationis)

(Fabricius, 1798)

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Nymphalinae

Identification: Forewing hooked; upperside is red-orange with black spots. Upperside hindwing of summer form is mostly black with a short tail; that of winter form has much orange and a longer, violet-tipped tail. Underside is light brown; hindwing with pearly white question mark in center.

A lantern I made for the Illuminares Festival. It's a question mark block straight outta Super Mario Brothers. Spray paint stencil used for the painting, otherwise an assembly of crepe paper, glue and barbecue skewers.

Thanks to Posterchild for the inspiration.

Lit by sitting it on a Vivitar 285 HV.

Horseshoe Lake State Park on 9/7/13

Question Mark, Codorus State Park, Hanover, Pennsylvania.

See the white comma shape with a separated dot on the wing? That's the question mark. On the Comma Butterfly, there isn't a space between the comma and the dot - see the other photos in the comments.

Some Riddler goodies to match my current cosplay costume.

Indian Larry Remembered

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Question mark butterfly, Codorus State Park, Hanover, Pennsylvania.

Just a quick shot.

Someone asked me for my configs, so I thought I'd throw 'em out here too :)

py.staticfire.co.uk/Something.rar

It's a collection of images and .sams, you'll have to set all of the image paths yourself, but the plugins should go to the right place. If anything doesn't work, call me, and I'll try my best to fix it (:s)

The Comma and Question Mark are called anglewings due to the interesting angle shapes of their wings. The color pattern changes from fall to summer. This is the summer pattern (dark brown on the hind wing dorsal surface. This color pattern is about the same in both the Comma and Question Mark.

These butterflies like pollen but they are seen most frequently sunning on leaves high up in trees or licking the mud on drives, paths and next to ponds and puddles.

Question Mark butterfly

North Pond in Lincoln Park, Chicago IL

I don't know why, but question mark butterflies love this sign. There's often one perched here and they defend their territory from all comers, including people. I've had them fly up and land on me a couple times.

Not usually a fan of graffiti, especially if it is defacing something but there is something appealling about this.

Is the message that the animal kingdom doesn't know the harm that mankind can cause?

I would be interested in other peoples take on the message.

In Be'er Sheva

What was originally meant to be a shot from City Gate, Valletta of the restaurant opposite (located just underneath Hastings Garden), ended up in this camera-shake mess. But all is not lost!

I like to say this was fully intentioned and we were simply experimenting with slightly slower shutter speeds to get the perfect question mark character ("?") formed with the lights.

Note to self: Always use a tripod when shooting in such harsh low-light conditions ...and your hands tremble too much (and you know it)

Ellis Lake Wetlands, Fairfield, Ohio

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