A couple of northerners:

White Admiral

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Milbert's Tortoiseshell

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Tucker

What lovely pictures-

Cresphontes, I'd really love to know what type of camera do you have? Your shots are stunning!

Thx,
Nerry

White monarch :-)

White monarch :-)

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Other known as the " white morph", I was lucky to have 2 of these one week apart from each other.

Beautiful pictures, everyone. Thanks for sharing.

Martha

Love the images:)

Love the pix, esp the White Monarch and Milbert's Tortoiseshell (I'm still trying to attract one).
What is that butterfly puddling/basking to the left of all those Blues?

Nerry, I use a Panasonic Lumix G2 It's a micro 4 3rds camera. Not all of the shots were taken with it though.
Forgot to put this shot in.

Nicholas

Leafhead, it is a bordered patch From Arizona

Nicholas

Thanks, Nicholas for the camera info. I need a new camera since I'm always out taking pics of birds, butterflies and others.

Nerry

Male spicebush swallowtail -

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Great purple hairstreak -
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Pipevine Swallowtail -

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American Lady -

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Red Admiral -

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Buckeye -

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Gulf Frit -

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Sherry

Nice images, thanx for the info Nicholas

and an ETS...

And a BST

And finally...
Every party has a pooper LOL

Fantastic photos, everyone :) This year was a great one for my garden... I was able to release my first 20 butterflies, and was visited by many Tiger Swallowtails.

Buckeye
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Question Mark or Eastern Comma?
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Sulphur
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Pipevine Swallowtail
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Gulf Fritillary
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Monarch
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Monarch
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Variegated Fritillary
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American Snout
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Forgot what this little one is called... Spring Azure, maybe?
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Cabbage Whites
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... I can post more if anyone wants to see them (although I do realize that that's what this thread is for ;) )

Common Buckeye

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

American Lady

Eastern Black Swallowtail

Gulf Fritillary

Pearl Crescent

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Black Swallowtail

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It's a girl :)

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Giant Swallowtail

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Full Frontal

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Top Side

Can I sneak a moth in?

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Male Polyphemus

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Close up - love the fur!

I love all y'all's pictures, especially the white admiral and the snout, which I never see here.

Sherry

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A couple more faves, a Monarch...

And a Soldier Beetle on Tithonia

I have quite a few, I'll let you all ID them.

Another......

Monarch on Desert Mallow

Some kind of Skipper on Desert Marigold

Another on Desert Marigold

Two more on Antelope Horns Milkweed

Two more on Antelope Horns Milkweed

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Sulfur(?) on Damianita

Fantastic pix:-D First one is a Red Admiral. 2nd; a pair of Buckeyes, 4th: is a Checkered Skipper-nice capture!! 5th is a Frittilary of some type, and 6th are Hairstreaks, possibly Blue??

Keep posting would love to see some imperial moths or regal moths:)

Here's a male imperial moth that showed up under the garage light last year -

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I raised some regal moths a number of years ago. The caterpillars are more remarkable than the adults. Early instar -

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Middle Instar -

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Late Instar, about to make its pupa -

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Adult regal moth -

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And while I'm at it, here's a cecropia moth I raised -

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Sherry

Newly eclosed Black Swallowtail:

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Those moths are way too cool, and those cats are CRAZY!!!
What did you feed them on?

Man great photos! Wish I had my computer so I could post.. Maybe this weekend.......

As I recall, they ate pecan leaves, Leafhead. They were the most striking cats I've ever raised!

Sherry

Fun thread. I enjoy seeing a variety of butterflies, so I am adding some that may not be represented yet. Unfortunately, they are not loaded into an online site, so it will have to be solo per post.

Marine Blue on sage.

I wondered if this queen was after salts/minerals from the dried plant, as the nectar fountain appeared to have dried up a while back.

Bramble Hairstreak

Hawkmoth in action

Awesome pics sorry for asking but does anyone raise palamedes cats and If you do can u post a pic

I haven't raised any palamedes swallowtail caterpillars this year, the first time this has happened and very disturbing. The laurel wilt that's affected red bay (their host plant) has something to do with this, but the many other pests that beset red bay/Persea probably has a lot to do with it, at least here, where laurel wilt isn't supposed to occur. It reportedly DOES occur just a few counties to the southeast of here (Jackson County, MS) so that's very worrisome. Lately, I'm being visited frequently, however, by adults in my garden - they especially like the porterweed and turk's cap, their tastes differing a bit from most other swallowtails. There is a good bit of healthy new growth on my best, most gall resistant red bay, and I've seen palamedes swallowtails circling it quite a lot. I also have a seedling, undoubtedly from this good red bay, growing in a container with new growth on it, also. Palamedes swallowtails lay eggs until late fall - I've gotten new chrysalides as late as Christmas. Anyway, I'm hoping I'll get some cats to raise before the year is over.

Palamedes swallowtail eggs look just like spicebush swallowtail eggs, and the caterpillars are nearly the same. In the early instars, the white patch on the lower end of palamedes cats is solid white, not being mottled like spicebush swallowtails.
When they turn green, they look like spicebush cats without the big yellow eyes - they only have little triangular red spots there. And their undersides are darker, being nearly burgundy colored. Palamedes cats grow bigger than spicebush cats, and the butterflies are bigger, being almost as big as tiger and giant swallowtails.

Here's a spicebush cat on the left and a palamedes cat on the right -

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This picture shows the burgundy undersides -

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Sherry

P.S. I loved the pictures of the lorquin's admiral (never seen one) and the green hairstreak!