A few late season butterflies

gcertain

16 years ago

One benefit of the warm, dry fall in the Southeast is that the butterflies are staying longer.

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khakitag
16 years ago
wow, what gorgeous photos. You must be a pro, or have an awesome camera. Of course, the butterflies are beautiful too!
jmcat
16 years ago
Wonderful pics and very pretty BFs!
-Jmcat
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mssunflower
16 years ago
Beautiful pictures. Can you identify the butterfly in the 13th picture down? I saw one very much like it in my yard on Sunday and cannot find anything that comes close.
gcertain
Original Author
16 years ago
We are expecting freezes tonight and tomorrow night, so I guess that will be it for the butterflies this year. I'm glad they stayed around as long as they did. Today I saw only a couple of Gulf Fritillaries, Sulphurs and Skippers.

Thank you for the compliments, and I'm glad you liked the pictures. I certainly am not a professional photographer, but I do love my camera, a Sony DSC-F828. It's a few years old and I don't think it's made any more, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I have over 12,000 shots on it.

I should have identified the butterflies. I was tired, I guess. They are:
1. Monarch
2. Monarchs on Orange Cosmos
3. Pipevine Swallowtail
4. Pipevine Swallowtail
5. Common Checker
6. Fiery Skipper (I think!)
7. Buckeye
8. Variegated Fritillary
9. Gulf Fritillary
10 Sleepy Orange Sulphur
1. Red Banded Hairstreak
2. Sulphur in the Jungle (Orange Cosmos, Red Cypress Vine, Pink Morning Glory)
3. Long Tailed Skipper (I don't recognize the cat)
4. Cloudless Sulphur
5. Painted Lady
6. Eastern Black Swallowtail
It turned out to be a very good year for butterflies here. Here's the entire collection:
{{gwi:448331}}Alabama Butterflies 2007
jmcat
16 years ago
There was a post about that species of cat on the discussions side recently. Thanks to MissSherry, I can tell you that it is a Tobacco Budworm Moth cat. This year, I am raising them for the second time. The moth is certainly not as big or showy as a Luna, but they are kind of pretty.
-Jmcat
gcertain
Original Author
16 years ago
Oh, jeez, Heliothis virescens! After all the years I spent in the cotton field with farmers and entomologists working on ways to obliterate these little demons without making them invincible to pesticides, here I am growing them in my garden. I can't believe I didn't recognize it. Well, I guess I can, because I've never seen one that big. I'm glad I didn't bring it inside and feed it. I could never show my face at a cotton meeting again.
geni