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For the Memorial Day weekend, I took a trip to Montpelier, Vermont. The weather was uncooperative for the most part so while I didn't get the roll of the dice for capturing scenics, there are always alternatives to landscapes for the nature photographer...you just point the camera down.
I'm glad this image turned out OK. This butterfly was in a fragile bog and I couldn't get closer to the subject without my big feet wrecking the ground cover, so I used my rather awful 75-300 lens to get close enough that I could capture a decent shot.
Funny name for this butterfly...question mark. The reason for the name is on the underside of the wings there is a white marking that resembles a question mark.
This is the first time I've seen this species (or I just never paid attention if I've seen it before.)
The Question Mark butterfly. This butterfly gets its name from the stylized white mark, which to me looks more like a sickle than a question mark. There being no hammer, it would've been better in my opinion to have named it the Half-Communist butterfly. Perched on a chard leaf, in our Austin, Texas garden.
It's easy to tell when a caterpillar is getting ready to form its chrysalis. The caterpillar attaches itself to a surface and then curls up like this. If I had stayed to watch it during this time, I would have been able to watch the formation of the chrysalis.
In this photo you can tell that this caterpillar has just recently molted. The remains of the old skin and head are visible on the left side of the photo. Caterpillars go through several molts during their development into the adult form. Some species of caterpillars change their color and size dramatically with each molt. Others just change their size but essentially look the same through each successive molt.