Recent Posts Tagged With 'butterfly'

• Lepidopterist Grammar Question

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 12:57 in photo, photos, butterfly, question mark, comma, local schmocal, hop merchant

  I stood next to the car  smearing on sunscreen.  My reflection shimmered in the heat in the dark-tinted windows of the car a few feet way.  I was leaning in my car to  stuff the bottle of sunscreen in the pocket of the door when I heard the h...

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 05:21 in butterfly, tiger swallowtail, papilio glaucus

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 04:47 in orange, butterfly, Carnival, question mark

• Common Ringlet

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 19:55 in ny, butterfly, northeast, catskills, coenonympha tullia, common ringlet

  While I was in the Catskills last weekend, I spied a small new-to-me butterfly fluttering weakly close to the grass.  According to Brock & Kaufman’s Butterflies of North America it is a Common Ringlet and has expanded it range southward he...

• Butterflying

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 19:57 in butterfly, wildflowers, sulphur, butterflies, milkweed, skipper, monarch, spearmint, bee balm, clover, monarda, local schmocal

  When the birding gets tough and birders go butterflying. I find IDing butterflies much harder than birds.  And moths next to impossible.  But they are beautiful....