Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 55, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Get ready....am about to hog this thread for several posts!!! It was a great day!!!

Went to the local NABA park today. It turned out to be an excellent day for butterflies! Got to see two very rare butterflies which were lifers for me - a "Common Melwhite aka Creamy White" (Melete lycimnia isandra) - which isn't common at all - quite rare for us - I just hate when they use the word 'common' in a butterfly's name - and an Apricot Sulphur (Phoebis argante) but wasn't able to get photographs. Only one man was able to get a photograph of the Apricot Sulphur but there had been sightings of several Creamy Whites from last week. Also saw a Tropical Greenstreak (Cyanophrys herodotus) but forgot my glasses in the car and ended up with a very out of focus photograph :o) I went back and got my glasses but when I got back it had flown away. Another was sighted as I was about to leave for home - and it was about a hundred yards away - I was too pooped to walk that far :o) Maybe next weekend :o)

One of our group thought they spotted the Apricot Sulphur again so you can see how they are all gathered around trying to look get a good look and photographs - after reviewing photos the butterfly everyone is crowed around turned out to be a Orange Barred Sulphur :o) I just had to take a photograph of all the photographers - Ro Wauer and his wife are in the group as well as other local leps.

~ Cat

ps...am wondering if there are butterflies out there flying around with teeny tiny cameras photographing us?! ROFL!!!


This message was edited Nov 30, 2008 7:13 PM