Phaon Crescent Butterflies Absolutely Love the Spring Sun
Phaon Crescent Butterflies Absolutely Love the Spring Sun shows one of these gorgeous spring butterflies warming itself in the afternoon sun.
Sun Worshipper
One of our most colorful spring butterflies is the Phaon crescent (Phyciodes phaon). It’s a brushfooted butterfly like the American lady and the gulf fritillary, and it’s usually one of the first ones to appear, so it’s frequently on the wing while the weather is still a little cool, especially at night. Insects depend on the temperature outside (or inside, when they manage to get…
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the southern festoon (zerynthia polyxena) | source
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The Southern Monarch of South America. Among the moths and butterflies. 1908.
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Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
Apocynaceae
Photographs taken on August 13, 2023, at Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
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@philoursmars submitted: A Marseille, par un été très chaud, le noir et le blanc de ce beau papillon (un Sylvain azuré ?) dans le vert des feuilles.
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Very beautiful! Looks like an admiral (Limenitis sp., maybe Limenitis reducta?)!
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Aspromonte National Park, Calabria, Italy
Photos by Meraviglie di Calabria
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Hector the butterfly making his way back to the blog <33
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