Horrible shot, but butterfly #48

Giant butterfly on bleachers?
Nah. Just a normal-sized butterfly that was taunting me. The only place it would stop was on a second-story shutter, hence the low-quality shot. But it's the first Hackberry Emperor I've ever seen-to-photograph, so it has to be today's post even though I have better images (at least one of which is a future-filler for sure), and it gets tagged for seeing all species I've posted, http://365project.org/tags/tm-butterfly-species

Confirmed at BAMONA as “Asterocampa celtis” or “Hackberry Emperor”; http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/sighting_details/1099767

Species page at BAMONA, http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Asterocampa-celtis

[Not to be macabre, but my mom would have been 80 today, though she didn't even make it to 55.]

1 year ago (“Back to reality (… a single-subject day)”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2015-08-20
2 years ago (“Getting BILLY home”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-08-20
3 years ago (“Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: A different POV”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-08-20
4 years ago (“Almost-ventral Common Buckeye”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-08-20
5 years ago (“August abstract #6”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-08-20

[ IMG_2263S100x75Otm :: f/5.6 :: 1/200" :: ISO-400 :: 250mm ]