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The Mangrove Skipper from yesterday’s post seen from a different angle shows its white face and more of the iridescent blue that caught the sunlight so well.
Categories: Nature • Tags: butterfly, Mangrove Skipper, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Phocides pigmalion
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At rest on a blade of grass | Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
Categories: Nature • Tags: butterfly, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
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A Monarch butterfly foraging at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.
Categories: Nature • Tags: butterfly, Danaus plexippus, Monarch, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
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A Monarch butterfly foraging at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.
Categories: Nature • Tags: butterfly, Danaus plexippus, Monarch, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
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A quick afternoon walk on the first truly cool day of Florida’s short, but desperately appreciated, Fall-WInter season found a lot of insect activity along Oslo Road where it cuts through the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. The insects were out and about appreciating the cool weather just as much as everyone else. White Peacock Butterfly Green Orchid Bee Green Orchid Bee Honey Bee Honey Bee Honey Bee Dragonfly Bumble Bee
Categories: Nature • Tags: Anartia jatrophae, Apis mellifera, Bombus impatiens, Bumble Bee, butterfly, Dragonfly, Euglossa dilemma, green orchid bee, Honey Bee, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, White Peacock
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Zebra Longwing butterfly in the Audubon House pollinator garden at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA).
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, butterfly, Heliconius charitonia, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Zebra Longwing
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Zebra Longwing butterfly, designated the state butterfly of Florida in 1996, in the Audubon House pollinator garden at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA).
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, butterfly, Heliconius charitonia, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Zebra Longwing
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A bright yellow Orange-barred Sulphur butterfly at the Egret Marsh Stormwater Park.
Categories: Nature • Tags: butterfly, Egret Marsh Stormwater Park, Orange-barred Sulphur, Phoebis philea
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Two Cassius Blue butterflies mating on a Saturday morning with an ant in attendance. Seen at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) on a very hot and humid morning.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Ant, butterfly, Cassius Blue, Leptotes cassius, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
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The good luck tale of an urban Gulf Fritillary caterpillar. A couple of Gulf Fritillary caterpillars and a Cuban Treefrog in a mix of plants that include the Fritillary’s host plant, the passionflower vine, next to a well-travelled walkway at Audubon House. A close-up of one of the Gulf Fritillary caterpillars showing the defensive spines protruding from along its body. One of the caterpillars made its way to the railing along the paved walkway where it attached itself and made […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Agraulis vanillae, Audubon House, butterfly, Chrysalis, Gulf Fritillary, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, passionflower vine, pupa, Pupal Case
