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Category Archives: question mark
The Cherry Tree has Butterflies
Our cherry tree has lots of fruit on it this year–Pat has picked a bunch for pies. Still, there is ripening fruit and over-ripe fruit. And butterflies. This is called a question mark butterfly, named for the silver marks on … Continue reading
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Tagged Asterocampa celtis, Enodia anthedon, photography, Polygonia interrogationis
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Today’s Bugs
There was a lot of insect activity today. Loads of butterflies, although nothing I haven’t already seen for the year. Lots of odonates, also. But along with the “good” bugs were a bunch I wasn’t so fond of. Mosquitoes and … Continue reading
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Tagged butterflies, damselflies, macro photography
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Living on Borrowed Time
This butterfly is old and battered. It seems to be Polygonia interrogationis, the question mark butterfly, but at this stage I can’t say for sure. It does seem to be nearing the end of days.
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Tagged aging, death, Polygonia interrogationis, question mark
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Butterflies Drinking Sap
I saw these butterflies the other day, drinking sap from a wounded tree. This is a question mark butterfly, Polygonia interrogationis. The photo below is a northern pearlyeye, Enodia anthedon. Butterflies will often take food other than nectar. They will … Continue reading
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Tagged butterflies drinking sap, northern pearly eye, question mark
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History of the Butterfly, Part 37: Henry’s List
In the April, 1870 edition of American Entomologist and Botanist, Henry W. Parker published a list of butterflies found in Iowa. It included a list of butterflies previously reported by Mr. Samuel Scudder as having been found in Iowa, and thirteen species … Continue reading
Posted in butterflies, butterfly surveys, clouded sulfur, common buckeye, eastern tailed-blue, gray hairstreak, Junonia coenia, little yellow, monarch, oarisma poweshiek, pearl crescent, question mark, The History of the Butterfly, Uncategorized
Tagged butterflies, Henry Parker, Iowa butterfly list, Samuel Scudder
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A Question Mark Butterfly
In spite of Dutch Elm Disease, we still have a number of American elm trees growing around. They grow to about a foot in diameter, maybe twenty five or thirty feet high, then they die. I took this photo of a question mark, Polygonia interrogationis, … Continue reading
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Tagged butterflies, caterpillar, Polygonia interrogationis, question mark
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