Showing posts with label Butterfly-Pearl Crescent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Butterfly-Pearl Crescent. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

New butterfly to the yard

I thought this butterfly was a Fritillary although it is much
smaller than most Fritillaries in my yard. I started my search in the Fritillary section of my reference book.
I changed to the Pearly Crescentspot,
then started looking at all the Crescentspots in my book.
After I have a species in mind I usually check it on
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/ to see if I think I am right.
I couldn't find any "Crescentspot" at all. So then I found a Pearl Crescent
I checked here and think I have it right.
Maybe they have updated the name to Pearl Crescent.

I have had several different butterflies, but have not had alot of any species of butterflies. I keep hearing others say they think the butterfly population is down. I looked back at my post last year to see the dates and I think we are just getting into the butterfly season in East Tennessee, if it follows last year. I also remember last summer the Cabbage White Butterflies were the first ones I saw. I have really started seeing the Cabbage Whites real good in the last week, posted some photos on Monday. I went to UT Gardens at the University of Tennessee on Tuesday and only saw the Cabbage Whites there. I went just to photograph the beautiful gardens, as if I didn't have enough photos waiting for me to go through.
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