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Post by Fossilman on May 28, 2015 9:39:41 GMT -5
I was out cutting rock most of the day,under my carport...We have a lot of flowers in our yard,so I'm use to seeing bees and Humming birds around-but yesterday this guy showed up (big as my hand) and was getting his fill of the flowers too..   |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 8:00:48 GMT -5
Did she flutter by? The tail end looks more like a moth though.
Jim
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Post by panamark on May 29, 2015 8:18:20 GMT -5
nice Swallowtail butterfly
unfortunately they are getting rarer
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Post by drocknut on May 29, 2015 8:22:29 GMT -5
Beautiful butterfly and great pictures.
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Post by Rockoonz on May 29, 2015 10:18:02 GMT -5
Elizabeth plants things that attract nectar feeders like hummers, butterflies and honey bees. She knows if she can lure me outside to watch them eventually my ADHD will take over and I'll begin to work on something, at least for a little while.
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Post by rockpickerforever on May 29, 2015 11:08:09 GMT -5
Elizabeth plants things that attract nectar feeders like hummers, butterflies and honey bees. She knows if she can lure me outside to watch them eventually my ADHD will take over and I'll begin to work on something, at least for a little while. Boy, can I relate to that. With me, I get bored sooner than later, can't stick with one thing for very long.... Oh, look! A chicken! Can ya say easily distracted?
Great butterfly, Mike! We have something similar here in SoCal, maybe the same species? But you just don't see the swallowtails as often as you used to. That one looks like a Papilio rutulus, or Western Tiger Swallowtail. 
Sure is one ugly caterpillar: 
Nice find!
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Post by Fossilman on May 29, 2015 14:54:48 GMT -5
Elizabeth plants things that attract nectar feeders like hummers, butterflies and honey bees. She knows if she can lure me outside to watch them eventually my ADHD will take over and I'll begin to work on something, at least for a little while. Boy, can I relate to that. With me, I get bored sooner than later, can't stick with one thing for very long.... Oh, look! A chicken! Can ya say easily distracted?
Great butterfly, Mike! We have something similar here in SoCal, maybe the same species? But you just don't see the swallowtails as often as you used to. That one looks like a Papilio rutulus, or Western Tiger Swallowtail.
Sure is one ugly caterpillar:
Nice find!
BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for sharing the photo Jean! Thumbs up |
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Post by snowmom on May 30, 2015 5:17:58 GMT -5
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Post by bushmanbilly on Jun 3, 2015 10:32:43 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 3, 2015 10:38:11 GMT -5
Billy, that's a Cecropia Moth, (Hyalophora cecropia). The large antennas identify it as a male. It's a member of the giant silk moth family.
Beautiful! I don't think we have those in So Cal, least I haven't seen any. Jean |
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Post by bushmanbilly on Jun 3, 2015 10:52:54 GMT -5
Thanks Jean.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 22:44:29 GMT -5
Billy, that's a Cecropia Moth, (Hyalophora cecropia). The large antennas identify it as a male. It's a member of the giant silk moth family.
Beautiful! I don't think we have those in So Cal, least I haven't seen any. Jean Buglady |
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Post by agatemaggot on Jun 5, 2015 1:48:56 GMT -5
We had a lot of Yellow Swallowtails in Michigan. We had Parsley planted in our garden and there were always a lot of the caterpillars munchin away on it. When my mom and I would work in the garden we would always stop by the parsley patch and see who could spot the most, they blend in perfectly with the plants !
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Post by jamesp on Jun 5, 2015 5:26:09 GMT -5
Imagine getting hit in the forehead with bushmanbilly's silk moth on a motorcycle running 70 MPH. Gugbuts galore + concussion |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 5, 2015 7:55:22 GMT -5
Billy, that's a Cecropia Moth, (Hyalophora cecropia). The large antennas identify it as a male. It's a member of the giant silk moth family.
Beautiful! I don't think we have those in So Cal, least I haven't seen any. Jean Buglady  |
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 5, 2015 10:37:15 GMT -5
Imagine getting hit in the forehead with bushmanbilly's silk moth on a motorcycle running 70 MPH. Gugbuts galore + concussion Quite a few years back my brother in law(lives in ND),was riding his bike-doing about 70 MPH and a duck came up out of the ditch,hit him square in the stomach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Knocked the wind out of him and one hell of a bruise too..He stopped the bike without wrecking it!! Thumbs up |
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Post by Rockoonz on Jun 5, 2015 12:34:21 GMT -5
Got something roughly bumble bee sized in the upper lip once, felt like I got punched and ended up with a nice fat lip.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 5, 2015 18:59:25 GMT -5
Jean, You do have a Cecropia in So Calif but it's not seen as often as the Polyphemus. It's the Ceanothus Cecropia Moth, Hyalophora euryalus. We had them in our yard when we lived in Ojai as we had a huge Ceanothus in the back.
Few pesticides are in use in this part of Texas so Swallowtail and other butterflies abound. In our yard we get, Pipevine, Spicebush, Giant, Black, Tiger, and Four-tailed Swallowtails. of course, my wife has a huge number of food plants for many butterflies planted all over the yard. Main problem we have is the Giant Red Polistes wasp which is a caterpillar hunter and often decimates the caterpillars. Not to mention their sting is like being it with a dang hammer....Mel
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Post by radio on Jun 5, 2015 19:03:37 GMT -5
Can't quite put my finger on it, but something about that pic bugs me  gorgeous Swallowtail! We usually have a few Luna moths hatch out here and hang around the carport until the wings dry and they take flight. |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 6, 2015 5:37:21 GMT -5
Heard a high pitch buzzing as the sun was going down and found a large group of blooming cannas were being drained of their nectar by hummingbird moths. One late summer.
They stayed there till it was about dark. A strange occurrence, the speed and loudness of the buzzing sound. Must have been a hundred of them.
Never seen them before or after. Probably because they seemed to feed as the sun goes down.
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