The flash didn't quite freeze this pair but I like it regardless... Sophia Sachs Butterfly House, St Louis
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The flash didn't quite freeze this pair but I like it regardless... Sophia Sachs Butterfly House, St Louis
Another view of this guy from a few weeks back. Sophia Sachs Butterfly House in St Louis
Back to the butterflies at the Sachs Butterfly house. They are much showier from the other side, but still quite gorgeous in this view.
I think this beauty is a Cydno Longwing, but that's just a best guess. The Heliconius genus has a lot of doppelgangers... Sophia Sachs Butterfly House in St Louis
Another pair of butterflies from last month engaged in amorous behavior. Sophia Sachs Butterfly House in St Louis
Another Heliconius butterfly at the Sachs Butterfly House here in St Louis.
Heliconius butterflies-- I think these are Red Postman-- go through their mating display. Sachs Butterfly House in St Louis.
A freshly-emerged individual brought out by the butterfly staff. Sachs Butterfly House in St Louis
With the crappy weather we've been having recently, my photo group decided to take advantage of some indoor subjects-- specifically, butterflies at our local Sophia Sachs Butterfly House. They are getting ready to celebrate Morpho Madness and have brought in hundreds of these guys, who are quite brilliant when they spread their wings. Good luck catching them displaying when perched, though, and flight pics were not really an option given their erratic flight and the large numbers of visitors.
A threatened species from a private prairie in south central Missouri.
Another tiny butterfly, this one wrapped by a lovely red ribbon. I caught him visiting the the frostweed in our back yard.
Tithonias may not be native in the US, but they make for an irresistable lure for many of our butterflies. This was the first pipevine swallowtail I've seen in our yard, giving me an incentive to try planting their host flower next year.
A tiny butterfly on white clover. Stone County, MO
Just saw a story a couple weeks ago that USFWS are looking to officially list Monarchs as a threatened species, with additional protections. Hopefully it isn't too late to bring them back from the brink, but with shifting climate patterns it may be a tall order. This isn't a milkweed flower, but it is next to a group of milkweed plants that we put out a few years back to give them a hand.
A male sachem tries to get the attention of a female as she nectars on an allium. This guy was fluttering all around her-- it was quite amusing to watch.
I'm running short on current photos, so I'm going back through photos from earlier in the year now. This is a cat from Schoolcraft Prairie, a private area visted in August. It is one of the more common members of the Saturniidae-- the silk moths.
One of our visiting butterflies from last summer. Note that the flower it is on is that of the white crownbeard/frostweed which is now producing frost flowers. Glendale, Missouri
One of my friends is somewhat skipper-obsessed, and he has me looking over and attempting to identify what has been showing up in the yard. This is a less-common variety from September. Glendale, Missouri
After having clouds of skippers around our flowers all summer, it was down to this one last week. It seems quite a bit worse for the wear-- note that you can see the orange flower through the wing. I hope he or she was able to pass on DNA to the next generation-- we can use more survivors like this. Glendale, Missouri