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Butterflies photographed in Costa Rica and nearby
One of two butterflies inside my house on a window screen 3 nights ago, this Rusty-tipped Page, Siproeta epaphus (my gallery link) was on the same window screen with a Malachite (cousins on the same page of the butterfly book) which I will share later. It has been almost a year since I’ve seen one of these and they are more impressive with wings open as you can see in my above-linked gallery. Just the one shot in the dark with a flash.
¡Pura Vida!
There are many Whites and some are easily confused, but this one seems to be the most common in my garden and you can see other photos of it in my Gallery: Giant White, Ganyra josephina. Here’s 2 photos (when possible, I always try to get a side view & top view) of the one in my garden 3 days ago . . .
Another favorite that is not seen every day in my garden is the Tropical buckeye, Junonia zonalis (my gallery link with better images). This first one seen since May this year and not as good photos as others in the gallery.
¡Pura Vida!
This brilliant orange butterfly, Julia Heliconian, Dryas julia (my gallery link) sometimes reminds me of my beaming special needs daughter, Juli, who died of kidney failure in 1997. She too was brilliant, hyper-active and unpredictable! 🙂 And only parents of other special needs children know what I mean. 🙂 She was the only true love in my life at that time and I will always miss her! Pura vida!
¡Pura Vida!
Of course there are other looks of this Florida White, Glutophrissa drusilla (my gallery link), but I kind of liked this one captured in my garden in July. See the above gallery for more looks. And I will now start posting August photos, but if the photo ops run thin, I may go back to some more like this from July! There were a lot! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
I’m not even trying to make it to all the colorful activities in our little farming community’s Central Park, but thanks to Facebook sending me links to posts they think might interest me, here’s a video from the Atenas FB Page of a folklore musical performance this past week . . .
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1292819208868018
https://www.facebook.com/MuniAtenas/videos/1292819208868018/?__tn__=F
It wouldn’t “embed” with a picture with either address. Technology is getting to be too much for me! 🙂
This Marcellina Sulphur, Phoebis marcellina (iNaturalist link) has had only 56 observations in Costa Rica on iNaturalist and was my 3rd new species in July. I had a total of 31 species of butterflies photographed which could make it a near-record month! I haven’t been counting by months before, but have now started doing all my uploads to 4 websites by months, keeping a record now of each month for birds, butterflies and other wildlife. But with the recent bout of all-day cloudiness, it has slowed down with the less flowers. But who knows what tomorrow holds? 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Continue reading “Another New Species of Butterflies”
Like most skippers, he is not very colorful or exciting, and you can’t see his purported “purple wash” on my shots, but – he is a new species for me! Right here in my garden! And that long row of white dots was what made him easy to identify! 🙂 No other shots in my gallery, but you can see others from Costa Rica in the iNaturalist CR Purple-washed Skipper, Panoquina lucas, where there are only 17 other observations of this species in Costa Rica! 🙂 You can see the “purple wash” on some photos there! Here’s two shots from my garden . . .
I’ve been seeing a lot of yellow butterflies recently and this Westwood’s Yellow, Eurema westwoodii (my gallery link) seems to be one of the “regulars” this year for the first time. See more in my gallery link above.
¡Pura Vida!
The Julia Heliconian Butterfly always has beige or muted colors on the bottom of the wings, but this one photographed in my garden in July seemed “muted” all over, most likely because of the sky or sunlight that particular day. It gave this particular butterfly a feeling of calm, sophistication, and nostalgia, I think. Evoking a sense of subtlety.
See how bright an orange the top wings can be in my gallery: Julia Heliconian. And 2 more shots of this one . . .
Continue reading “Muted Colors Julia & Health Update”
This Medarda’s Virbia or Stoll’s Tiger Moth – Virbia medarda (my gallery link with 4 more photos). It just came up on my terrace and died under my breakfast table one night last week. So I photographed him with both cell phone and camera and began the search for an identification. Not a lot of information about this little guy online or in books. The most photos online are in iNaturalist Costa Rica (35). Here’s just two of my photos, a top view and an underneath view.
¡Pura Vida!