Showing posts with label Great Spangled Fritillary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Spangled Fritillary. Show all posts

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Great Spangled Fritillary

These photographs were taken early summer, don't think the Great Spangled Fritillary butterflies are still out flying around here.
Look at his tongue in the bottom photograph.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Friday, August 15, 2008

Variegated and Great Spangled Fritillaries

The top 3 are one type of butterfly.Notice the underside of this one.
This photo the wing on this side is completely flat. So it is a kinda of odd photo from the top of this one, but it does look like it is the same butterfly as the 1st photo.
Then you get to the bottom 3 photos. From the top this butterfly pretty much seems the same as the butterfly at the top. Although I don't have this one completely flat.
He also appears to not open his wings as he eats like the one above does.
Has the underside markings of a Fritillary, so I am fairly confident it is. Just which one?
It just amazes me these 2 butterflies are basically the same on the top, but the undersides are not similiar at all.


The top one I have been at for 2 summers now. Either I did not notice the bottom one last summer, or it is new to my yard this year. I am beginning to think Fritillaries are like Skippers. Label it as a Fritillary and go on. Although that does not quite satisfy me, so I would appreciate any and all comments helping me id these 2.

UPDATE: Hap in New Hope has helped id these 2 butterflies. The top 3 photos are the Variegated Fritillary. The bottom 3 photos are the Great spangle Fritillary. Thank you very much for the help.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Butterflies at the Settler's Museum of Southwest Virginia

Top photo is a Spicebush Swallowtail. The bottom 3 photos are the Great Spangled Fritillary.


As I look through the photos I took in Virginia I keep finding more I like from the Settler's Museum of Southwest Virginia. We really did enjoy the afternoon.

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