Since things have cooled off some and it's been overcast/rainy a lot lately, the b'flies seem to be doing more basking to warm up. I've gotten a few great shots. Here's one of the Gulf Fritillary (the wings are pressed together).
Recent b'fly visitors
Here is the same b'fly with it's wings open. It doesn't even look like the same butterfly!
Nice pictures...love those spots on the under side...how unusual.
I love these butterflys. We had lots last year but not this. I wonder if the cold had anything to do with it. We're getting more and more lately so that's good.
I had lots of them early on this year and then hardly any at all this summer. Lots of zebra longwings around, though. My DH kept saying, I see a black b'fly out the window. TO which I would promptly ask, does it have thin/long wings with yellow stripes? We're still getting lots of them. I've had 3 at a time nectaring on my firebush (Hamelia patens). I have yet to get a good picture of one!
I have ZLWs roosting overnight in my backyard. They come in at dusk and settle on branch tips. I saw this at Arlene's up near Gainesville last year. It is so neat to watch them and so hard to get a picture under the trees at that time of evening
Stacey, that would be such a cool shot to get of all those Zebra's roosting...even to see it would be really neat!