A Question Mark butterfly and ya gotta love the scientific name: “Polygonia interrogationis.” I suppose there’s a reason I haven’t had an opportunity to see many of these before. From my NWF field guide, “Adults rarely visit flowers, drinking instead from sap, fruit, mud, and carrion.” Yum, right?
Third “first” in a week. I wonder if this is due to the weather last year (when I began in earnest) or this year…
Another “circle-of-life” photo passed up today: an Eastern Cicada Killer (wasp) with the prey from which it derives its name… See here, http://bugguide.net/node/view/844408
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