Scanned Neg set 660 - June 1998
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Scanned Neg set 660 - June 1998
Scanned Neg set 660 - June 1998
Scanned Neg set 660 - June 1998
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Explore Oct 14, 2011 #52
I love the lines the grasses form here and the way the White Peacock angles across them. What a beauty! Such iridescent colors. Such magnificent dark "eyes" and tawny shoulders.
A lovely male with only one notch out of his left wing. As Fall proceeds, more and more of the wings will be damaged and lost until the butterfly can no longer stay airborne and dies.
The White Peacock butterfly has a lovely pattern of wavy brown lines and bands along with dark eye spots and orange margins. It can be seen all year in south Florida and moves up into central and northeastern Florida each summer.
It prefers weedy field, dry or moist, and used a number of food plants for its larvae, including Lippia, Water Hyssop and Ruellia. The males of the species display a unique territorial behavior, in which they stake out a territory typically 15 meters in diameter that contains larval host plants. They perch in their area and aggressively protect it from other insects and other male white peacocks.
The larvae are dark brown to black with black spines and a black head with two long, club-like projections.
White Peacock, Anartia jatrophae
Arch Creek East Environmental Preserve, North Miami, FL.
www.susanfordcollins.com
Explore Oct 9, 2011 #267
I love the color tones of nature! Look not just at this marvelous tiny Skipper but also to the marvelous earthy red, blue and green. Oh how wonderful it is to look through a camera! To really see what we typically fail to notice!
A bit far South for this Skipper! But here he is in Miami lighting on a pinwheel grass.
The classic furry skipper body, large eyes and hooked antennae. But this one has a gorgeous dark brown or black and white checkered pattern. The wing alternating white on the outer edge is interrupted at the upper tips, the identifying mark of the Common Checkered Skipper. The male has more white than the female. This is a male.
The underside of hindwings is white with bands and spots of tan and olive.
Common Checkered-Skipper, Pyrgus communis
Arch Creek East Environmental Preserve, North Miami, FL
www.susanfordcollins.com
See my sets, Woods, weeds and streams. And Florida Butterflies.
Arch Creek East Environmental Preserve, North Miami FL
www.susanfordcollins.com
The grass seen here is a type used to create traditional Nepalese style brooms. These become hard, but retain their suppleness when dried in the sun.
