The fritillaries - which is which?

Maggie Valley, NC

All of my butterfly ID books give me no clear differentiation between a number of the frits - also the difference (if any) between males and females of the same species. If anyone can help with the ID of these photos, I would appreciate it. I believe there might be only two varieties of frits here. The white moth (b'fly?) with the blue fringe is also a mystery to me (poor photo, sorry!) Thanks for any help!

Also, I've included one photo of one of our very prolific hummingbird moths, for which my camera managed to "still" the wings. They move so rapidly, and never stop - just like hummingbirds - so in case folks have never seen their wings, I put this one up here for you.

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brainerd, MN(Zone 4a)

check out this site :)
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/

Maggie Valley, NC

Thank you for the link. It is helpful, however, the closest I could find to the white moth with blue fringe is a lemon with black fringe. It is possibly the same, but my photo, as poor as it is, is color true. I realize that the age of the moth might have something to do with the color it is in the photo, or might be a variation of that particular one, but I wonder, still, if that is it!

Oakland, MD

The frittilaries are either the Great Spangled or Aphrodite. Not familiar with the moth. Snowberry Clearwing moth, and a White Peacock butterfly =)

Minot, ND

The last moth looks more like a hummingbird clearwing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_thysbe
than a snowberry clearwing - http://www.birds-n-garden.com/snowberry_clearwing_hummingbird_moths.html

Oakland, MD

I agree now that I get a better look at the picture. Mistook the lighting for yellow, and black markings!

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