Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Help ID Please : ) ........., 0 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Ahhhh...I've searched my collection of books and scoured the internet to no avail.

However, my many years of hoofing it out in the field in search of illusive butterflies leads me to firmly state it is one of the Ithomia species!!! Those glassy and transparent wings makes it one of the rarest species to be sighted in the U.S. Lucky you!!!

It is also very thoughtful of your wife to add those decorations to the tree as well as a camera one too at that!!!

Must say I haven't seen one of the Ithomiidea species...although a Thick-tipped Greta (Greta morgane) http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/morgane.html and a Broad-tipped Clearwing (Pteronymia cotytto) http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/cotytto.html were sighted in December back in 2004 and 2005 no others have been sighted since.

Alas, I must console myself with my giant metalmark - who've I've aptly named Metal Mark. He hangs from a springy spring by my front door and when the wind tickles his feet he does a little jingley dance. I brought him inside for a photo shoot :o)

~ Cat