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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I'm hoping your husband shares and enjoys your new hobby. I bet you're happy to have a new butterfly to add to your "collection". |
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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So sorry to hear about your husband. I think I would choose raising butterflies as a hobby even if I had all the time and money in the world to do anything else! When I see that monarch emerge from its chrysalis, it is always miraculous to me! I am waiting on 3 to emerge this morning. Need to go pick milkweed to feed my 20 or so 3rd instars. They are so hungry!
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Salamander
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Texas
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On the cages, I'm just doing that on Spicebush, because the leaves don't stay very good if you bring them in for container use. I use welded-wire fencing in a circle around the plant...with a special screening material with a strong, extra-tight weave (had to do some research to find a place that sells it) attached around it. Then I have another piece of screening that I clip onto the top of the circular cage...it's removable. I've also used 'sleeves' available to buy on the internet to slip over branches of a plant...to keep the caterpilars fairly safe. It's not perfect, but it helps.
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1st Place Winner Winner Butterfly/Moth Contest & Official Ant Man
Join Date: May 2009
Location: New Jersey
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The first one I'm not sure on but I was happy to find some butterflies on the Summersweet. The next I think is a red spotted purple, though I've taken better photos of them (see the first page). Next we have a common white Cabbage Butterfly in a mating pose. There was another going down to "do the deed."
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Co-Administrator
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Midwest
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First one looks like a Silver-spotted Skipper:
Silver-spotted Skipper — wisconsinbutterflies.org
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Salamander
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Texas
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Yes, the second looks like Red-spotted Purple to me also. The Cabbage White...looks weird because it looked like only one set of wings...but guess looks can be deceiving!
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#97 | |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Great pic...and interesting pose. I'd never thought about, nor seen, a mating pair of butterflies. I really liked your phrasing "...going down to 'do the deed'". You made me smile. |
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#98 |
Slapping, Swearing, Itching, Scratching Mosquito Bait
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: pennsylvania,usa
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A few moths, taken tonight. There haven't been very many this year, maybe because our summer has been very hot and dry. ???
Anyway, as I'm looking up ID's for the moths, I hear a rustling outside in the recycling bin, which is always fun... tonight's creature feature was a small, beautiful skunk. I couldn't get a decent picture though. I'll have to have a word with a certain someone about rinsing stuff better before it goes in the bin... There are dozens of Pyrausta moths. This might be P. acrionalis. The larvae eat mint, but I sure don't grow any. Maybe 3/8" wide. ![]() One of the emerald geometrid moths, the wavy-lined emerald, Synchlora aerata. About 3/4" wide. The caterpillars camouflage themselves with bits of plants. ![]() I think this is the common angle moth - the larvae eat maples. About an inch wide. (Or it might be a red-headed inch worm moth (M. signata), which eats pines. Or something else entirely...) Marcaria aemulataria formerly Semiothisa aemulataria ![]() |
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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The mint-eating larva's as an adult moth is beautiful--and it must have the freshest breath of all the moths. |
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#100 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Out and about this morning I found these guys feasting on the mountain mint. It's magical when it blooms. I feel like I'm standing in the middle of a fairy land as dozens of butterflies flit all around me.
First is a buckeye, then some kind of skipper, a beautiful tiger swallowtail, and the last is blurry but I couldn't resist capturing five tigers on one plant. |
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