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I almost forgot, this one is drinking from our Swamp Milkweed in the garden.

#Flowers

Here's a very large one for today, a Spicebush Swallowtail. While we only see 1-2 at a time in passing, the size of their wings announces them pretty well, allowing for a fun sight when they're around.

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Coming back to the faster kinds of butterfly, here's a Whirlabout resting on a thistle leaf. This was on a nature reserve, one with little shade on the main trails.

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Here's a more ornate discovery, a White Peacock butterfly. These made their way around the area, their bright wings making them stand out amongst every flower patch they were enjoying.

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Here's another one, similar to yesterday's: a Pearl Crescent. These ones sport more round spots on their wings and usually only one shade of orange, a good way of telling the difference between these and the Phaons.

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Here's one we see pretty much everywhere here, a Phaon Crescent. They're a smaller kind, keeping low to the grass as they flutter around, and having 2-3 shades of orange with their patterns.

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Vanessa atalanta Butterfly perched on a tree trunk. The butterfly was feasting on some tree sap. Host plant include those belonging to the nettle family redadmiralbutterfly butterflies wildlifegardening

Red Admiral Butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) #VanessaAtalanta #bugsky

A collection of various items from our woodlands and gardens to celebrate the Autumn Equinox. Photographed from loosely left to right: butternut squash , goldenrod , Turk’s Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii) , tomatoes , mushrooms , Rudbeckia triloba , amaranth, Redbud leaves, American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) , red flower of Hibiscus coccinea , okra , muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia) , persimmon ( Diospyros virginian), dried beans , Scuppernongs, and fruit/seeds of hearts-a-bustin (Euonymus americanus)

Autumn 🍂 #AutumnEquinox

Here's one I saw only a couple days ago, a Ceraunus Blue. You can see on just the edge of its other wing the bright blue color that gave it its name, hidden by its closed wings while it rests, perched on the grass.

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Here's a rare sight, a Monarch freshly-emerged from its chrysalis, drying its wings and getting ready to fly away.

This was taken when we were shopping for flowers at an outdoor garden, it's on the back of one of the signs.

#Bugs #Butterflies #Metamorphosis #Nature #iNaturalist

Oh, I love moths, including this, with the peculiar name The figure of eight, Diloba caeruleocephala! But have you seen it and its' pattern on the wings, you understand why. It flies now.

#thefigureofeight #blåhuva #Dilobacaeruleocephala #noctuidae #naturephotography #insectphotography #RF100/2.8

The road less traveled by.

#SundaySilence

#eastcoastkin #nature #autumn

#Sunrise #Minnesota #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

#Sunrise #Minnesota #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

#Forest #Mist #Trees #Minnesota #Nature #BlueSky #Photography #NaturePhotography #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

#Forest #Mist #Trees #Minnesota #Nature #BlueSky #Photography #NaturePhotography #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon in this previously unknown species.

This is super cool www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

Alpenrosen in red colour in the bloom, some open, some not yet open. Green surrounding leaves.

Alpenrosen, picture from the summer ☀️🦋

#flowers #bloomscrolling #flowerscrolling #hiking #alps #mountains #nature #photography

Now for this beauty, a Palamedes Swallowtail on a milkweed.

At the time we made the mistake of getting Tropical Milkweed, but got rid of it before the colder seasons. We've since replaced it with the more native Swamp and Butterfly Milkweed.

#Bugs #Butterflies #Flowers #iNaturalist #Nature

#Nature #Marsh #Scape

Sunny autumn morning in the marsh.

Amazed to see my first ever Dusky-lemon Sallow on a very cold evening in south Devon this week. A rare species in Devon with only a handful of records this century. #teammoth

Photo of a trail through small coniferous trees. The trail is moss-lined. At the end of the visible trail, the light appears to have a golden glow.

On a wooded section of the East Coast Trail. The golden, late-day light was kind of special.

Deep in the woods #trees #treeclub #woodland

Take a seat #trees #treeclub #woodland

#flowers
#nature
#photography
#flowersoftheday
#naturephotography
#bloomscrolling
#fungi
Butterfly 🦋 in the sky

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax

#nature #beauty #river #hope #peace 🕊

Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli).

The scaly wings of a Convolvulus Hawk-moth.

#teammoth #mothsmatter #scalywings

Here's a bright one for you, a Cloudless Sulfur butterfly. I'm not sure what kind of flower it's drinking out of, been a while since I took this photo.

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Here's one I took some time ago, an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail going from-flower-to-flower on an Azalea, didn't even seem to care that I was there it was so busy drinking.

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A swan in a Kent river

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it

Shakespeare

I return to share this beauty I found today, a Gulf Fritillary butterfly drinking from our Pentas flowers, which are a favorite with the visiting butterflies.

Posted this originally on my iNaturalist, I try to share the great pictures here.

#Bugs #Nature #Flowers #Butterflies