We’ve had several hard frosts, so I expect this dying sulphur is the last of the season’s butterflies.
Tag: fauna
Stragglers
I should clear the garden, but there are still a few skippers and sulphurs showing up to feed on the tail end of my sad zinnias.
Red-spotted Purple
Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax)
I thought there was a moth on the outside of the window, but when I got a step stool and looked more closely, it was a butterfly.
Tuesday Butterflies
Hobomok Skippers (yes, two of them)
Monarch Butterfly
Harvestmen
This is by way of a test post. I’ve been using the FlickStackr app to grab HTML for my images on Flickr, so I can pop them into blog posts.
The official Flickr app does not allow grabbing HTML. It does have a share to WordPress option though.
ETA: The reason I’m testing this option is that the FlickStackr app has been pulled from the app store by Apple. Hmf. The developer has had his development account shut down, so if the app stops working for some reason, it won’t be updated. On to Plan B!
ETA 2: Now that I can look at how WordPress handles this sort of image post, on the back side, I’m not happy about it as a long term solution. Instead of the image being hosted on Flickr, it’s copied to my WordPress media folder and displayed from there. That eats up storage on my free account. I also just don’t want to store anything of mine in my media folder. It’s a waste, since the images are already stored on Flickr and sharable from there. Hmf. Hopefully before FlickStackr gets broken by a Flickr redesign, someone else will come up with an app that grabs HTML/BBcode. (Or, rather, one that actually works. There are a few that claim to grab Flickr HTML/BBcode, but that function doesn’t work.)
In the meantime, I edited the Harvestmen image to point at Flickr.
Great Spangled Fritillary
I don’t remember seeing many of these guys in previous years. They’ve been regular visitors this summer.
Silver-spotted Skipper
Today was all about skippers.
Monday Butterfly
Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Happy Labor Day (US)!
I worked today, because I need to save as much PTO as possible
for snow days this winter. I burned through most of my banked time off when Frances was sick, then when I got Thomas I used up the little bit I’d managed to re-bank. (We accrue time off biweekly, instead of getting a lump of time at the beginning of the year.)
So today I worked so I could save the holiday hours. Not the best way to celebrate Labor Day, but it beats having to drag myself to work in an ice storm or when it’s -10F.
Bumblebee and Sunflower
The bees like sunflowers, too.
Sunday Butterfly
I think this is a clouded sulphur. It was hanging out on a sunflower with a hobomok skipper and a firefly.
red paper boat 