The gates were open

Mother Nature opened the butterfly gates for me today. There were butterflies everywhere in the honeysuckle, blackberries, and black haw. I literally didn't know where to point my camera first. It was awesome for my butterfly addiction! :0)

I decided to make a collage of my favorite shots.
Clockwise left to right
Red Admiral
Great Spangled Fritillary
American Lady
Common Buckeye
Great Spangled Fritillary
Red Admiral and Eight-spotted Forester Moth
American Snout

Thank you so much for your kind comments on yesterday's Skipper Sipper!!! :0)

[❀ Lynn]

Fav! Love 'em all! Great shots.

[Carolyn White]

@robv I need help identifying the moth? in the pic with the Red Admiral. Thanks! :0)

[Corinna]

so pretty! so colourful! great shots!

[Trina P Holub]

That's a gorgeous collage!

[Laurie]

Lucky you! I don't think I've seen any around here yet. But I'm getting lots of birds, so that's okay. Great shots!!

[richard saffold]

so then there must be a butterfly corral somewhere.

[Kerri]

Beautiful butterfly collage

[Robert Velten]

Great collage! So many fantastic butterflies, the moth is a Forester in the family Zygaenidae. Looks like the genus Alypia from a quick search, not sure what species. I'll look more later. Have fun!

[Cathy Donohoue]

I love it! And you even know what they are. One is more gorgeous than the next. Good work.

[Robert Velten]

Update, Alypia octomaculata is the best I can come up with from the photo.

[Kayla]

oh wow!! love this. wish I could stumble on something this great.

[Julie Purnell]

What a fabulous collage! You take beautiful pics of butterflies!

[Kimmi]

Buckeyes are my favorite!!!

[Kass]

Wow - I am so very jealous! Gorgeous collection. :)

[Carolyn White]

@robv Thank you so much, Rob!!! I was at a loss on this one. I couldn't find it in my book. :0)

[John Guerin]

Super montage. You are lucky indeed. We had a bit of snow today but I did get a shot of a Red Admiral yesterday but it is not great.

[BeckyS]

Wow. Beautiful collage.

[karenann]

Each and every one of these is gorgeous ... stunning colors and markings. You really hit the jackpot here. What a stunning collage!

[bardejov]

Butterflies Gods must love you very much. I feel your excitement. Great collage.

[Kathryn Marshall]

Great collage and shots! Beautiful butterflies.

[Zoe Ferrie]

Wow, gorgeous collage .... butterfly heaven for us butterfly lovers!

[Rick Schies]

Wow, I should say. You hit the jackpot

[K J Buehl]

Splendid! Love all the individual shots and the collage is perfect! fav

[Barbara Pizzo]

Lovely , just lovely.

[Ulpi]

What a beautiful collage!

[Terry H]

Good Lord, Carolyn, you just got 23 comments on this incredible composition of pics! I hope you know how blessed you are to be in a place where butterflies are freakin' Everywhere so you could just click away with no effort! Do I sound jealous? Well, uh.....yeah, I'm a little green...thank God green is my favorite color! HA! OUTSTANDING PHOTO SHOW, my friend!

[Michael Girard]

Wow, that is a lot of butterflies! Well done!

[Jo Ann Bellone]

You muct be exhausted tonight, what a great day you had

[Denise Breimeir]

FAV. Perfect caption for a wonderful collage of your best butterflies! Beautiful!

[bkb in the city]

wonderful collage

[Anne ❀]

holy moly! FAV!

[Sharon Lee]

Beautiful

[Paul Myers]

Awesome display.

[Nikkers]

this is a great collage , love these little butterflies... we are still having crappy skies here. so no butterflies here .. boohoo

[ari fink]

very good idea to do a tableau with this bliss. the colours are matching each other. love it....and envy you ;)

[Kelly]

Love the collage and all the photos are beauties in their own right too!

[Dione Giorgio]

So very lucky of you Carolyn. This collage and captures are so very beautiful.

[Jennifer C]

brilliant! faved for sure! you spot so many beautiful flutterbys and photograph them perfectly

[alia_801]

Gorgeous collage! I love the patterns on the last one :)

[Carole Imes]

Magnificent collage. Amazing all the pretty butterflies you were able to capture and identify. Fav!

[Peter de Graaff]

Wonderful montage of so many differenet types

[tim williams]

Stunning array of subjects and shots!

[Rosie Kind]

What a brilliant collage - instant fav. You obviously know your butterflies!

[trude]

unbelievable!! I never see a single buttlerly (except those boring little white ones, lol). I can't believe you get so many, this is a beautiful collage!!

[santina]

wow i love the butterfly, beautiful collage, Brava

[Dawn Wilson]

Beautiful collage!

[Myrna O'Hara]

You are so lucky to have seem all these, and have gotten wonderful shot of each one. Congrats on the PP. love the collage.

[Rosie Kind]

Congrats on PP

[Beth]

Wonderful Collage. You really manage to get some wonderful butterfly shot. They are almost never still for me and I only see two or three kinds.

[carol white]

Gorgeous collage,well done!!

[carol white]

Forgot to FAV!!

[Junan Heath]

Magnificent collage! Gorgeous!

[Nikki D.]

Wow, this is beautiful, nice job!

[Mark Buehl]

What a great collage! All very beautiful. You are lucky. We have very few butterflies here in Wisconsin because of the cool weather. I hope they come soon.

[Taephy]

oh wow, each and everyone exquisitely beautiful! What better way than to make a collage for this...^_^

[Pam Hawkes]

Awesome collage Carolyn. You take great butterfly shots!

[Mary]

What a stunning collage, Carolyn!

[Robin]

How absolutely splendid! Great collage and fav. for me.

[Dominique]

Gorgeous - I am also a butterfly photography addict. :)

[Claire]

Wow fabulous collage, they are all beautiful

[cglist]

All gorgeous!

[Pyrrhula]

Awesome beautiful and a great collage

[cheryl]

beautiful collage!!

[Paula Cook-Farkas]

Man, you weren't kidding! Fantastic collage!

[Ramona]

Stunning shots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yvonne]

Absolutely beautiful. What a great collage.

[MaryBeth Dailey]

Holy moly! We do NOT have this many out. I love how they were all in the browns and browns and blacks....very neat collage. What is the bottom right one again? Not sure by the caption....I love the tiger eyes on those!

[Carolyn White]

@espyetta This has been the only day I saw this many. It was so much fun! The one on the bottom right is a Common Buckeye.

[Julie O]

Great collage, you always take suck clear photos of butterflys