I have spotted another new butterfly at my place ...........could someone help me ID please?
LOL : 0)
HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE !!!!!!!!
Help ID Please : ) .........
ANOTHER VIEW ..........
Maybe someone can ID it from those big yellow eyes!! LOL!
to cute. I have been collecting bird and butterfly ornaments for the last 3 Christmases. This year my tree is nothing but birds, hummingbirds, and butterflies. I even just found a lighten Peacock tree topper
ornaments
Ja, I can't find it in any of my books :>/
I'm scartching my head! Can't figure it out either. Happy Holidays everyone.
Kim
I still haven't figured it out either !!!............. but I really like it !!!!! .........
also found an unidentified hummer on the same tree ..........I am calling it a blue throated glitter nose !!!!!!!!!
love, james t.
Isn't she a darling! lol.
Jay, I believe I have identified your butterfly, it is called Splendiferous maximus, or
Most Splendid Butterfly, that was quite a find!!!
Josephine.
I didn't know that my dear wife had bought the butterfly and hummingbird ornaments until she showed them to me on our tree .......she had gotten them as a result of my new found excitement of butterfly and hummingbird gardening!! ............ she also found an ornament of a camera as well : o) due to my complete obsession of trying to take a picture of EVERY butterfly that I see around our place!!
Thanks everyone for playing along with me : o) !!!!!!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
That's so thoughtful of your DW, James, happy gardening and the love of nature. Well wishes for the Holidays too.
Kim
Here's one that I believe flew down from the North.
Arlene
Beautiful, boys! Ya'll in good spririts for the Holidays' cheers! Cheers!!!
very pretty Arlene : o)
james t
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
Here's one I can't identify.....I think it came from 'somewhere else'.
It looks like it may be from the little finger species!
very cute !!!!!!! perhaps it is a red lipped feather wing !!
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