Category Archives: question mark

The Cherry Tree has Butterflies

Posted on June 20, 2016 by the roused bear

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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Today’s Bugs

Posted on June 27, 2015 by the roused bear

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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Living on Borrowed Time

Posted on June 13, 2012 by the roused bear

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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Butterflies Drinking Sap

Posted on June 21, 2011 by the roused bear

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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History of the Butterfly, Part 37: Henry’s List

Posted on November 6, 2010 by the roused bear

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 →

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A Question Mark Butterfly

Posted on August 26, 2010 by the roused bear

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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