Butterflys located
In My Massachusetts Garden
The Beautiful Monarch
(Danaus plexippus)
Female Monarchs have darker veins on their wings
Below
First-photo Monarch egg on milkweed plant
Second photo.Female monarch
Third photo.male monarch(Notice a black scent patch on top of each underwing
This tells you it is a male
Copycat Monarch?Not Exactly.
This is a Viceroy butterfly(Limenitis archippus)
Similar to the Monarch
It is distingushed by the Black line,that crosses its wings.
At this time,I'am not able to show the difference between the male and female viceroy.
Below,is the beautiful American Lady
(Vanessa Virginiensis)
I have made these photos larger
so you may see what I'm talking about.
In photo one to the left.
notice the white spot in the middle of a patch of orange
(insert)on each of its forewings.
In photo two,on the right,
notice the underwings have two large black boardered eyespots
(insert)This tells you this is an
american Painted Lady.
I need to do more research on sexing these butterflys
Below,Is the Painted Lady butterfly(Vanessa Cardui)
This Butterfly Looks a Lot like The American Lady.The difference is in photo one on the left.
Look close at the front wings,There are
NO WHITE SPOTS on the orange spot
while the American Painted Lady above does.
Now Look at the second photo on the right
Notice the 4 to 5 eyespots on the underwing.
while the American Lady Has only two in the photo above
Another butterfly I need to do more research on sexing them
Below,Is the Great Spangled Fritillary
Female(Speyeria Cybele)
Photo one to the left shows the female is much darker then the male
The Females are Tawny,Darker Orange with Black Scales
On their Forewing Vains.
Photo two on the right shows the underside of the Hindwings
which have a wide pale submarginal Band
with Large
Silver Spots.
Below,photo to the Left,
Is the same species,
except it is a Male Great Spangled Fritillary(Speyeria Cybele)
Males are Tan to Orange on Forewing vains.
are much lighter in color then the females.
Photo to the Right,shows the underside of the Male hindwing has pale Submarginal Band
with Large Silvor Spots.
Below,The Beautiful Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly.
(Limenitis Arthemis Astyanax)
So far these are the only views I have Of the Red-Spoted purple.
Sometimes when viewing butterflys,they may seem lighter or darker
when being viewed on research pages.
Light has a lot to do with it when taking photos.
These photos below are the same butterfly.
The first photo is the red-spotted purple on some quahogs,
tasting the salt residuce.
The second photo to the right is the Red-Spotted Purple in my peach tree.
This butterfly is new to my pond area.
Its Hard to distinguish between the male and female as they look alike
The only way to tell the difference is seeing them both together.
females are very big while males are small.
Underside of wings shown below- are brownish black with iridescent blue areas with large orange basal spots(which look red)
a row of bright orange spots,two rows of curved iridescent blue dashes near the margins of the wings
The undersides of both wings have a row of curved marginal white dashes
Below,something different.
To the Left photo,The Tomato Horn worm.
Most Of you have seen these worms on your tomato plants.
These worms go through stages as do other caterpillars.
The Horn worm when ready to start their journey,drop down into the dirt and borrow deep with in. They go through their stages and winter over underground till spring the following year.
They then turn into a Five-Spotted HawkMoth(Manduca Quinquemaclata)Photo to the right.
I was surprised to find out it was'nt a humming bird. but a moth that sort of looks and acts like a hummer.
Below,a Silver-Spotted Skipper Caterpillar(Epargyreus Claus)
I love this guy.I hope to find the butterfly next year.
these Caterpillars overwinter and have complete Metamorphosis.
They wrap themselves in rolled leaf litter and emerge in Spring.
Notice those big orange or red spots that look like eyes.
These seem to be there to fool predators
They do have 6 small eyes on each side of their head.
The Adult Silver Spotted Skipper is Large, Long winged and Brown
with Band of Yellow-Orange rectangular spots on forewings
and unique Silver-white patch at center of hindwing beneath.
Pretty as a picture,A Yellow Woolybear Caterpillar
(Spilosoma Virginica)
This pretty guy was found in my vegie garden for the first time
I would like to thank my friend, "BugGuy",
from the former "Gardening Only" chat Place
for identifying this beautiful caterpillar for me.
This caterpillar turns into a beautiful white Tigar Moth.
All these photos on this page were my own
and taken by me around my pond area.
anyone who wishes to use these photos as educational purposes may do so
as long as you do not call them your own.
Although I have many more photos,at this time,I will leave what I have here and maybe in the future
will add more to the web site.Thank you so much for visiting my pages,
Please come back again. (smiles) Gardenladyx
Page Updated from September 8,2009
to April 11,2011
By Gardenladyx
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