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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
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A Monarch butterfly slurps up nectar through its proboscis from the flowers along Oslo Road in the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. The white spots on its body and head are quite appealing.
Categories: Nature • Tags: butterfly, Danaus plexippus, Monarch, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
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A Zebra Longwing butterfly laying eggs in the garden on Tuesday. Note how her proboscis is rolled up.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, butterfly, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Zebra Longwing
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A night roost for Zebra Longwings, the state butterfly of Florida, discovered accidentally at dusk along one of the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area trails behind Audubon House. Oftentimes a large number of these butterflies will congregate in the same spot at night. The glaring light from the flash does not due justice to their actual coloration.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Audubon House, butterfly, Florida, Heliconius charithonia, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Zebra Longwing
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With very distinctive stripes, a Monarch butterfly larva gorges on milkweed in the final days before forming a chrysalis to begin the metamorphosis into a butterfly. Seen in the butterfly garden at Audubon House at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.
Categories: Nature • Tags: butterfly, caterpillar, Danaus plexippus, Florida, Indian River County, larva, Monarch
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A Gulf Fritillary makes the breakfast rounds in the first light of the day in the pollinator garden at Audubon House. In many of these images the wings are backlit by the Sun highlighting their scales, which give a grainy appearance to the wings. The topside appearance of Agraulis vanillae is less complex than the striking underside.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Agraulis vanillae, Audubon House, butterfly, Florida, Gulf Fritillary, Indian River County, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, pollinator garden
