Archive for the ‘Butterflies’ Tag
Photo-Artistry by kenne
Butterflies are white and blue
In this field we wander through.
Suffer me to take your hand.
Death comes in a day or two.
All the things we ever knew
Will be ashes in that hour,
Mark the transient butterfly,
How he hangs upon the flower.
Suffer me to take your hand.
Suffer me to cherish you
Till the dawn is in the sky.
Whether I be false or true,
Death comes in a day or two.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Echo Azure Butterflies — Image by kenne
“Flies January through September. Echo Azures (wingspan 19 – 32 mm) range from Southern British Columbia,
east to Montana, and south along the Pacific Coast to Baja California, using a wide variety of habitats
with woody host plants. Larvae feed on a variety of plants, including wild lilacs, California buckeye, and blackberries.
With multiple flights per year, adults are active from spring to fall, feeding on larval host plants as well as toyon,
cascara, and pussypaws.
Previously the Azures were considered one species, but taxonomists have recently begun
reclassification into multiple species. Originally listed in Park documents as Celastrina argiolus ladon,
the Common Azure of the West is now recognized as Celastrina echo.” — Source: inaturalist.org
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Empress Leilia Butterfly — Image by kenne
Colors of butterfly images
depend heavily on lighting
and angle of the sunlight,
which can make identification
a challenge for novice
butterfly watchers.
— kenne
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Red Bordered Satye Butterfly — Image by kenne
What are you doing?
Did you not hear the word no?
Too proud to answer?
— kenne
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Desert Orangetip Butterfly — Image by kenne
“Democracy is the art and science
of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Tiny Checkerspot Butterflies (Aspen Loop, 07/08/13) — Image by kenne
Tiny checkerspots
Showing love to the host plant
Before moving on.
— kenne
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Echo Azure Butterflies — Image by kenne
I usually spot these butterflies on mountain trails mud-puddling in a damp part of the trails.
— kenne
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Eyespot Butterfly — Image by kenne
While on our Madidi National Park adventure, I took approximately 1000 photos, most of which will only be seen by blog followers and those who visit my Flickr account. Of those photos, I have uploaded 20 butterfly and moth images, which you can see by clicking here. I was not on a butterfly expedition, having very little knowledge of butterflies, especially in the Amazon. However, I love photographing and sharing butterfly images.
If you are interested in more information on Madidi National Park’s diverse ecosystems for plants and animals you might start with this posting from Mongabay: News & Inspiration from Nature’s Frontline — Expedition finds butterfly bonanza in Bolivian national park (PHOTOS).
— kenne
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Desert Orangetip On a Fiddleneck — Photo-Art by kenne
“I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art.
Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.”
— from “Butterfies” by Vladimir Nabokov
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterflies — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality,
and eventually in one’s own.
— Susan Sontag
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Variegated Fritillary On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Variegated Fritillary On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Fiery Skipper & Cloudless Giant Sulfur On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Variegated Fritillary On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Cloudless Giant Sulfur On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Cloudless Giant Sulfur On Mexican Bird of Paradise
Fiery Skipper On Mexican Bird of Paradise — Images by kenne
I’ve watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! Indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless! – not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!
~William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”
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Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly — Images by kenne
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Painted Lady On Western Sneezeweed — Image by kenne
In the meadow of the valley,
Where wild flowers are roaming free.
There are multitudes of colors
And their backdrop forest greens.
— from The Meadow by Robert Edgar Burns
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Butterfly Circles and Squares (Mexican Yellow) — Image by kenne
Yellow butterfly
Matching the morning flowers
Early at sunrise.
— kenne
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Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly — Image by kenne
This butterfly has arrived,
I watch wondering
if it knows of its
new freedom
still holding on to a host
in a new beautiful
yet tragic existence
with three perceptions
of life in one world.
— kenne
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Becoming is Superior to Being 