What is this one?
another butterfly ID please
Could be a yellow swallowtail.
Sandyd, your beautiful butterfly picture is of the Tiger Swallowtail Pterourus glaucus
That is a lovely photo Sandy :)
Your Tiger Swallowtail is a little like our Scarce Swallowtail, but all I could get was this awful fuzzy shot :(
Editing to add scientific name Iphiclides podalirius
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Keep working on your focusing technique, philomel! Would love to see more French critters. Keep them coming, ok?
LOL, It's an automatic focus, but a moving object :)
Thanks for the encouragement, I'll be taking loads more pics (favourite hobby) as soon as we're not quite so busy
Not too much wrong with this one taken an hour and a half from home, in the Pyrenees (on my cousin's finger ;)
It's a Duke of Burgundy Fritillary in which the males appear to have only 4 legs as their other 2 are so small
Oh, and there's another here http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/453792
;)
Outstanding! I would love to see your pics of toads, grasshoppers, and, as many garden critters as you care to post.
Folks, you need to check out that link!
Thanks imway2dumb :)
Sorry, didn't mean to take over your thread Sandy
philo,
Awsome shot of that duke of burgandy. I'm just starting to get into butterflies. I'ts not my parade so you can rain on it anytime .
This guy has been around for a coupla days and he's the only butterfly I've seen this summer - usually I have plenty of them around. Don't know why I've seen fewer this year. I don't know his name and he didn't stay around long enough to ask.
Oooh, nice! Looks like he is on a butterfly bush, too. Sorry about the lack of butterflies. Bummer! Hope nobody's getting carried away with pesticides.
Thanks Sandy :) I'm only just getting into butterflies too. They can be very frustrating to photograph, but are so beautiful!
Yours looks like a Monarch, Blooms. They're fascinating and do long migrations. There's a website here with loads of info http://www.monarchwatch.org/
Sorry to hear that the numbers have decreased. Hope you get lots more soon
Sandy, Philomel, Blooms....lovely photos from all of you! Thanks for sharing :-)
-Julie
Thanks Julie :)
It'd be great to see some of the ones you have in Israel. I bet they're lovely?
Blooms,
Dh has been seeing a monarch on the buttery fly bush when I'm not home of course. Hope to get a pic as nice as yours before they leave.
Sandy, the year I had a lot of them on a daily basis they were visiting the annual Dahlias I had in bloom. The next year the grasshopppers ate all the dahlia blooms so I never grew them again. There are a plenty of buddleias and other things butterflies always landed on, it's just this year I don't see 'em like ususally do.
The grasshoppers were terrible here for a couple, three years - they're back to a reasonable number now. Wonder if our drought is cutting into the grasshopper numbers?