dark charcoal butterfly with blue and orange chevron spots on the bottom of the wings.
I've seen so freakishly few butterflies and moths this year. Happy to see an eastern tailed blue fluttering around. #bugsky #lepidopterans
What’s that butterfly up to?
Happy #PollinatorWeek! Support native pollinators by growing #nativeplants. #Lepidopterans require both nectar plants, which provide energy for adults to mate and reproduce, and host plants on which caterpillars can eat and grow. Watch an azure butterfly deposit an egg…
Two brightly coloured (dark iridescent blue + crimson red) fuzzy-winged insects in mating posture, with rear ends in contact, on a vibrant evergreen background of arborvitae foliage.
More doomsday relief from my #backyard #biodiversity files: Mating Squash Vine Borers (Eichlinia cucurbitae). Wasp-like appearance notwithstanding, these are day-flying #lepidopterans in the Family Sesiidae (clearwing #moths)! Posted to iNaturalist.ca June 2024 @inaturalist.bsky.social #nature
Purple-washed skipper butterfly
(Panoquina lucas)
Last pic from Las Croabas, taken a couple long weeks ago now…
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
#entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist 🦋
Northern tropical buckeye side view
(Junonia zonalis)
Two weeks ago in Las Croabas
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
#geometrid #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist 🦋
Northern tropical buckeye butterfly
(Junonia zonalis)
Two weeks ago in Las Croabas
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
#geometrid #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist 🦋
Light orangy-brown skipper alights on small wild flower to nectar among grass blades.
V-mark skipper butterfly
(Choranthus vitellius)
The week before last in
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
#skippers #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #flowers #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist #wildLife #wildflowers
Brown, white, black and yellow moth nectarine on white and lavender flowers.
Caribbean wasp moth
(Horama pretus)
Shy moth evolved to look quite like a wasp for protection, don’t you think?
Its caterpillars feed on Wild Calabash tree/bush (Cassinae xylocarpa) 🇵🇷
#entymology #lepidopterans #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist #waspmimic
Side view nectaring flower, broken right wing exposing rear end, black background accomplished in-camera by using flashes, camera settings, and nothing reflective immediately behind the subjects.
Northern tropical buckeye butterfly
(Junonia zonalis)
Last week in Las Croabas
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
#nymphalidae #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #moths #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist #wildLife
Pink patterned moth lying flat against a leaf
Cross's wave moth
(Leptostales crossii)
Thursday in Las Croabas
Fajardo, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
#geometrid #moths #entymology #lepidopterans #butterflies #puertoRico #macro #photography #macroPhotography #insects #bugs #nature #naturalist #pink
sounds, #Lepidopterans - Clean Pate Dierker, Professor Borax, Toshi Makahara & Jason of the Red Planet.
