I think this is a clouded sulphur. It was hanging out on a sunflower with a hobomok skipper and a firefly.
Tag: flora
Great Spangled Fritillary
Today’s visitor was a great spangled fritillary. And thank goodness, too. When I got home from work, the street in front of my complex was blocked by a car with its driver’s side door open, and a shirtless guy standing in the street, screaming hysterically at the driver.
I turned around, circled the block, and entered the complex from the other direction. And he was still screaming.
I went inside, got Thomas, and we left for a walk. Still screaming.
Thomas and I got back about a half hour later, and the shirtless guy was no longer screaming, but was still agitated.
They did finally leave at some point. I hope the guy calmed down. I did considered calling the police but decided that wasn’t going to help the situation for the guy or his girlfriend. The girlfriend could have left him and driven off at any point, if she felt threatened.
Ugh.
So, butterflies! They were a welcome sight.
Negotiations Are Ongoing
Piglet is still appalled that Thomas is not Frances, but he’s a realist at heart and is starting to think that maybe Thomas is better than no dog at all.
And look at what my little sunflower is doing today! It’s almost completely open.
Unfolding
My little sunflower is starting
to open.
Sunflower
It’s looking more and more like a sunflower. With my luck, the deer will be along any day now to eat it.
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
I thought this was a spicebush swallowtail, but someone on Instagram helped out with properly identifying it as a black swallowtail.
I also saw a zebra swallowtail on campus. I wasn’t quick enough to get a photo, unfortunately. They’re striking!
Bee and Skipper
Bumblebee and Zinnia
Hobomok Skipper
Autumn: The Sneezening
Does giant ragweed serve any purpose beyond making people miserable? There’s a huge stand of it behind my building, with some sections over 10 feet tall. It’s evil, evil, evil stuff.
But there are also butterflies, and butterflies make everything better.
Female Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly
Saturday’s Butterflies
Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
I usually take Thomas in three thirty-minute walks a day. Not a lot of exercise for a young Boxer mix! It takes the edge off, though. Today, on all three walks, it started pouring rain half-way through. I have wet clothes draped over everything, drying.
Butterflies
Hobomok Skipper
Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Sulphur Butterfly
Polyphemus Moth
The butterfly photos were taken this evening, on my patio. The Polyphemus moth was lying outside the front entrance of the library, when I left work today.
red paper boat 