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Category Archives: eastern tailed-blue
Recent Butterflies
Butterflies are less common this year than most. Still, there are some good ones out there. This is a summer azure, one of the two most common blue butterflies in Iowa. You can tell the difference between them by how … Continue reading
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Tagged butterflies, macro photography, nature, summer azure
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First of the Year Butterflies
I had some business to do today so I took a day off from work. I got some first-of-the year butterflies: First photographed for all of them, first seen for the eastern comma and American lady. First, the eastern comma. … Continue reading
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Tagged american lady, eastern comma, macro photography, nature
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Recent Butterflies
I have been lucky enough to have some time to photograph butterflies recently, and here are a few I have seen. This red-spotted purple was at The Ledges on Sunday. This eastern tiger swallowtail was visiting a wild bergamot in … Continue reading
Noon Walk Butterflies
I take a walk over my lunch break, and I count butterflies as I am doing it. Here are the results of this year’s surveys. I saw 24 species, 943 total butterflies. The species where I counted more than one … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly, butterfly surveys, Outdoors, wildlife
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A Small Butterfly
Butterflies are few and far between now, unlike the conditions usually encountered in September in Iowa. I did see this eastern tailed-blue yesterday, though.
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A Morning Drink
An eastern tailed-blue, Cupido comyntas, drinks nectar from the flowers of Canada goldenrod. We have had a long stretch of hot, dry weather and the butterflies are not present in the high numbers that they usually have this time of … Continue reading
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Tagged butterflies, Cupido comyntas, macro photography
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Butterfly Love
Butterflies mate tail-to-tail. They can fly, although clumsily in this position. I found this pair, initially, when I noticed them flying. These are eastern tailed-blues. They have been pretty numerous this year, while many other species have been mostly absent.
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Head On
The front end of an eastern tailed-blue.
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Tagged eastern tailed-blue, macro photography
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An Eastern Tailed-Blue
This year has been slow for the butterfly watchers. I have seen only a few butterflies per day recently, and had a streak of about a week where I did not see any. Yesterday was hot and rainy, with dark … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly, Everes comyntas, macro photography
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It’s Not Just About Pretty Flowers
Butterflies are attracted to flowers. Butterflies are often associated with flowers. But they are not just attracted to flowers. I took this photo a number of years ago of four viceroys drinking the juices of a rotten apple. These northern … Continue reading
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Tagged butterflies, northern pearly eye, scat, viceroy
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