Cabbage White butterflys

The number of black spots on its fore wing determine the gender of this cabbage white butterfly. The photo sbove shows a female Cabbage White with two black spots on its fore wing and below showing only one blsck spot is a male Cabbage White butterfly!

Mourning Cloak butterfly

finally I was able to get a picture of a Mourning Cloak butterfly! I have been trying to do this since April when I hadfirst started to see them on an old dirt road. Yesterday I had gone to a small pond hoping to see something to take a picture of when I saw something small and dark cross the road in front of my car, a dragonfly , maybe? I inched my car up to an approximate location when I had seen it enter the roadside bushes. Then I saw it! A beautiful Mourning Cloak draped on a small branch of a bush.
How delicate its ivory lacy edge looked and its beautiful blue spotson its black border were so lovely and distinct.

Our lilacs are in bloom now so I'm hoping to see a swallowtail butterfly feasted on its blossoms soon. I have seen two swallowtails over the past two days.
Have a great day everyone.!

An American Lady

Yesterday morning I saw an American Lady Butterfly, My first sighting of this species of this spring. How beautiful it was!

Eastern Comma Butterfly

Wow! My first butterfly photo of 2011. Its time to revive my butterfly blog isn't it! and I believe it is an Eastern Comma!, not a species that I am very familiar with.I find this sighting quite exciting! I had been driving down a woods road and kept seeing Mourning Cloak butterflies. A couple of times I got out of my car hoping I would see them alight or land, but I had no luck. But them I caught a glimpse of an orange butterfly that I thought had landed on some dried grass along the side of the road. So with my camera ready I got out of my car and walked to where the dried grass was, and oh, such luck, the butterfly arose from there and landed close by on the dirt road. I had a canon 300 mm lens on my camera and just zoomed in from where I was standing. Oh lucky day!!

A Pink-edged sulphur butterfly

An American Lady Butterfly

An American Lady butterfly loving purple coneflowers!

Red Admiral in My Garden

A Monarch Cutout

Friitillary in my garden

Primrose Moth

Found yesterday July 13, 2010

Seen today: My first Monarch sightings of the summer

And of course the best place to look for Monarch butterflys is in aCommon Milkweed patch!

Red Admiral butterfly

silver-bordered fritillary found

My first fritillary sighting this year. Maybe its a Meadow fritillary, but I chose to call it a Silver-bordered Fritillary.

I also saw several swallowtail butterflies yesterday and

a small Blue

A Luna Moth

Aluna Moth: This morning hanging onto my neighbor's door; I've never seen one before. magnificent in lime green., the largest moth I've ever seen

Peck's Skippers

Skippersare along roadsides now

These little creatures above are skippers. Although they appear to me minature butterflies, they are nottruebutterflies. I love to find these tiny little minatures. Above this little skipper is feeding on Purple Vetch along the Mast Road at Three Tree Creek.
These photos are, I think, of a Peck's Skipper. Its average size is about 9/16 of an inch. These tiny winged butterfly creatures are known as Skippers; I have read that they are not considered true butterflies. They are very small and their bodies appear proportionally larger to their wings than a true butterfly's does and their wings have an angular appearance to them. For these photos I used a Canon 75-300mm lens

Butterflies: Swaalowtails and Red Admirals

FRom swallows to swallowtail butterflies.  This is a moment I wait for each year as soon as our Lilacs come into bloom.I love to see the Swallowtail butterflies feeding on the Lilacs Also this year I have

seen Red Admiral butterflies feeding there.  How beautiful they all are, the Swallowtails and the Red Admirals.

Northern Cloudywing, first skipper of the season

Northern Cloudywing, first skipper of the season

I find them at the same location each year.  They never fail me.  They're there when I go look for them. 'Tis the season.

An unidentified moth on my window.

This lovely noth with fringed wings was on my window. I am unable to identify it.

Cabbage White and Dandelions

My first butterfly photo this spring; A Cabbage White!

The Infant (moth)