DeKorte Butterfly-palooza

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Question Mark and the Mysterions. How do we know it’s a Question Mark and not a Comma? See last image.

Went for a quick walk to Jill’s Garden in DeKorte Park around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, and the calvacade of butterflies began soon after.   (Plus two species of clear-winged moth.)  Not many, but a great assortment.

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Snowberry Clear-winged Moth

Two are pictured above; many more follow!  All photographed Thursday. Where were these guys last Sunday?

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Viceroy

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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

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Skipper…

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Broad-winged (?) Skipper. We usually don’t see ’em with their wings open…

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Hummingbird Clear-winged Moth

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Silver-spotted Skipper

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Red Admiral

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Eastern Tailed-Blue on mud…

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Those little white spots on the hindwing denote a Question Mark.

 

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