
Painted Lady Butterfly — Image by kenne
All things flourish, and each returns to its source.
— Lao Tzu
Painted Lady Butterfly — Image by kenne
— Lao Tzu
Arizona Sister — Image by kenne
— kenne
Giant Western Swallowtail In Tanuri Ridge — Image by kenne
— Michel Foucault
Queen Butterfly On Palmleaf Mistflower — Image by kenne
Every young plant springing
into heavy air,
one’s self up, out
from the core
as if earth’s got
too hot
for anyone to tough
too much;
much as the much-sung lark
climbs higher,
outsinging where
branches spread and flare
like ravelled wire-
ends or one’s hair
in an electric charge might
upstand, lift, as some
wire prancer’s parasol
might parachute and drift
you gentle down to ground
once more.
— from Summer Sequence by W. D. Snodgrass
Lilac-banded Longtail or Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes) — Image by kenne (October 2, 2022)
This is the first time I’ve seen, and photographed Lilac-banded Longtail or Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes), a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from Argentina, north through Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies to southern Texas and peninsular Florida.
Strays can be found as far north as northern California, southern Arizona, southern Missouri and southern Georgia. — Source: iNaturalist
Two-tailed Swallowtail On Meyer Lemmon Tree — Image by kenne
I don’t know why
but I’m pleased
swallowtails seem
to love our patio
Meyer lemon tree
making it easy for
me to set nearby
photographing these
beautiful butterflies.
— kenne
Pipevine Swallowtail On Mt. Lemmon Trail — Image by kenne
— kenne
Empress Leilia Butterfly Painting — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— kenne
This Morning a Broad-banded Swallowtail Visited Our Potted Lemon Plant on the Patio — Images by kenne
Southern Dogface # 7 — Image by kenne
— from 536. Ode Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth
Great Western Swallowtail Butterfly — Photo Essay by kenne
— kenne
Western Giant Swallowtail — Images by kenne
Swallowtail
— CharlesC
Great Purple Hairstreak Butterfly — Image by kenne
The great purple hairstreak, Atlides halesus (Cramer), is a fascinating butterfly. Although its preferred
and most frequently used common name is great purple hairstreak, it does not have any accurate purple
coloring. A few publications use the name great blue hairstreak, which is more appropriate.
I spotted this guy on our patio
— kenne
Southern Dogface Butterfly — Image by kenne
— Alexis Hall
Butterfly & Flower (October 15, 2014) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
— kenne