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enjoying sap from wounded sunflower steam along with flies.
Silver question mark in center of hindwing underside. Two broods a year; a winter brood with black-hindwinged adults and an overwintering brood with orange-hindwinged adults. Woodlands. Feeds on animal droppings and at sap flowers.
4 dots all in a row with the top wing one being elongated.
You can see the white marking on its hind wing that looks slightly like the question mark for which it is named.
Today is march 13th. Today I turn 29. I'm happy but at the same time living a kind of crisis for being close to 30. Time flies!!!!
This question mark is a tattoo that I have on my shoulder. I did it in 1999, in a moment when my life was experiencing important changes.
It always remembers me that nobody know what's coming next, what will happend to me, so.... I'm free but a the same time I must be flexible to avoid breaking when things are not ok.
I'm grateful for the nice life I have, for being able to chose what I want to do and for having so good friends to share things.
[This year Esther deserves a special mention for being the first one to congratulate me. Thank you! -- Who will be the winner next year.... ?]
Question Mark in the yard, Guilford, CT. Ventral (wing bottom) view. See previous photo for the wing tops. Not 100% sure of ID. Significantly bigger than a Comma.
#282.
With this I tried to achieve a kind of fisheye-ish effect, except I don't have a fisheye lense. Just toying with the perspective a little. Old board games are good for that kind of thing.
An image I did for a blog post.
I've been away from flickr for foevaa! I had this idea for a while, but never got around to doing it. I put the glitter question mark on an old tank top the night before and I'm really glad with the way it turned out. I'm sure if I were to actually wear it though, I'd leave glitter trails everywhere I went. -__- Hahah. Hope you like it!
The butterfly's name is "Question Mark".
Its name comes from the way the wing tips curve into a question mark. The adult butterfly feeds on carrion, decayed plant material and sap. When the wings are closed it is virtually invisible.
The butterfly was found near Baltimore at Soldier's Delight Natural Environmental Area. The environmental area is home to some of the rarest plants and animals. A book has been written about its uniqueness.
Soldiers Delight Journal : Exploring a Globally Rare Ecosystem
By: Jack Wennerstrom
Pub. University of Pittsburgh Press, c1995
This is a description of the area done for the US geologic survey:
You need not comment on this if you already did. Or even if you did not for that matter. I had posted this and the two shots below through Lightroom 4's Publishing function, and it seems that somehow I deleted them without realizing it. This has happened twice now with Lightroom pictures, and now I am paranoid and will have to check my entire butterfly set. Sheesh. Anyway, this was species #19 for the year when I posted it. Still is, just out of order now.