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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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These were flying around the Iroquois NWR today.
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#172 |
Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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Nice flutterbies, Sage! The large, yellow butterfly is a tiger swallowtail, papilio glaucus.
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#173 |
POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Thanks bridget! I considered that, but this one didn't seen to have the tail, so that confused me.
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#174 |
WG Facebook Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lyme, NH
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Might also be Papilio canadensis, which is supposedly more common here, but the two species are extremely similar.
papilio canaden frames
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#175 |
Slapping, Swearing, Itching, Scratching Mosquito Bait
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: pennsylvania,usa
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Finally saw a female eastern tiger swallowtail. They have a lot more blue on the upper hind wings than the males.
female: ![]() male- some will have a little more blue than this: ![]() weird picture, but you can see that the proboscis is two tubes. I never noticed before, so I looked it up and sure enough, wikipedia says "It consists of two tubes held together by hooks and separable for cleaning. The proboscis contains muscles for operating. Each tube is inwardly concave, thus forming a central tube up which moisture is sucked. Suction takes place due to the contraction and expansion of a sac in the head." ![]() |
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#176 |
Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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I've got my magnifying glass out and sure enough.... two tubes!!! I would still be in the "dark" if you hadn't pointed it out. Way cool photos!!!
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#177 |
A Bee's Best Friend
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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I'm enjoying all these pictures especially the ones giving a clear shot of the flower each flying creature has landed on.
Good look at the proboscis swampthing,still your eyes must be pretty good to have noticed. I have to wear glasses when looking at pictures now and identification is often difficult. |
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#178 |
Slapping, Swearing, Itching, Scratching Mosquito Bait
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: pennsylvania,usa
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I definitely didn't notice it until I saw it enlarged on the computer. Insects often appear for the first time when I plug the camera into the computer look at pictures.
Lots of these little grass skippers flying around. There are more than two dozen species recorded here. |
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#179 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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I caught these two a few days ago in my garden in Chapel Hill. I believe the first is a sleepy orange, since it definitely flashed orange rather than yellow when it was flying, although I couldn't catch its dorsal surfaces on film. The second is a common buckeye.
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#180 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Oops. I hit submit reply before my second photo finished uploading. I'll try again.
![]() I really like the photo where you can see the proboscis actually going into the flower. Amazing resolution.
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