Does this butterfly know that it’s November 14? The greenhouse staff and student workers have taken out the outside garden, so there’s nothing there to attract butterflies, but here was this “sulphur” flying about. I’m not sure whether it’s a Clouded Sulphur or an Orange Sulphur, but it’s probably the latter because I have yet to photograph a Clouded Sulphur.
Nope; Clouded Sulphur! My first!
Taken with my macro lens and although s/he was full of energy and flying around at mid-day, s/he let me get very, very close. I was on the ground eventually to get this!
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It is so magical to see a very early or very late butterfly! How did you go back and find my Sulphur pic? Had I tagged it by species? Lately I am not so precise with tags though...no time. It was nice to see your Sulphur and get to revisit mine. This past summer I did not see many butterflies at all...I planted some lantana and a butterfly bush ...but we also have to get warm faster than we did last year I think....anyway....do you think my pic is really a Clouded Sulphur ? I wonder now....
@espyetta MaryBeth— Yes; you'd tagged your earlier photo with species and that's how I found it. I was trying to ID the butterfly above.
To keep organized and find my butterfly and plant-and-flower photos, I have a text file with several lines of quasi-generic tag sets. Here's one example:
« butterfly swallowtail "swallowtail butterfly" "[common name]" "[scientific name]" tmbutterflies garden-visitor Papilionidae Papilioninae bamona-confirmed »
I copy-and-paste this line, make a couple substitutions and systematic tagging is ready to go!
I suspected this was a Clouded Sulphur, but I second-guessed myself. I'm going to email my BAMONA guy and ask him if there are tricks to distinguishing between Clouded and Orange Sulphurs. (See http://wisconsinbutterflies.org/butterfly/species/15-clouded-sulphur) I may point him to your post for a possible ID.
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To keep organized and find my butterfly and plant-and-flower photos, I have a text file with several lines of quasi-generic tag sets. Here's one example:
« butterfly swallowtail "swallowtail butterfly" "[common name]" "[scientific name]" tmbutterflies garden-visitor Papilionidae Papilioninae bamona-confirmed »
I copy-and-paste this line, make a couple substitutions and systematic tagging is ready to go!
I suspected this was a Clouded Sulphur, but I second-guessed myself. I'm going to email my BAMONA guy and ask him if there are tricks to distinguishing between Clouded and Orange Sulphurs. (See http://wisconsinbutterflies.org/butterfly/species/15-clouded-sulphur) I may point him to your post for a possible ID.