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A beautiful butterfly garden | Flowers that attract lots of butterflies

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2022/01/20
13:23 UTC

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What is this?????? Is it a hybrid moth and butterfly or what’s going on here? Was able to get a good screen shot from a video I took

1 Comment
2021/09/17
00:01 UTC

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Butterfly Diaries: Transferring Newbs

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2021/05/21
21:22 UTC

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hundreds of dead butterflies along shoreline

Today I was walking along my local beach (Williamstown,VIC, Australia) and I noticed a lot of dead butterflies all along the shoreline. They looked like monarch butterflies but appeared grey and blueish, very pale hardly any colour. Each one perfectly placed, wings intact but all completely lifeless, scattered across the shore.Does anyone know what this means or what happened?

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2020/10/05
12:19 UTC

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On my way to class and saw this beauty

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2020/09/20
13:17 UTC

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Can anybody help identify this?

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2019/08/27
07:49 UTC

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Butterfly garden in Dubai

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2019/07/17
12:18 UTC

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Buff-tip moths, of family Notodontidae, resemble the pale branches of broken Birch trees (Family Betulaceae). This camouflage hides them from potential predators.

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2019/03/10
20:34 UTC

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Need tips on extending the hatching period of the pupa

So we recently found a Caterpillar on a plant we brought inside for the winter. We put him in a small enclosure and fed him plant leaves for a few days. We came in yesterday and he was in the pupa stage but it's only the end of December! I've read a few tips about keeping them in the refrigerator or outside in the garage to slow the hatching process but I'm not completely sure how long this will delay the adult stage. Can we delay it long enough for the spring temps to arrive? Thanks!

3 Comments
2018/12/17
17:17 UTC

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I Stand corrected! A Black Swallowtail. I’ve never seen one! Are we in agreement? A lifer for me!

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2018/11/04
16:06 UTC

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❓Eastern Tiger Swallowtail❓I Think..

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2018/11/03
20:14 UTC

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Yesterday I saw I think a Butterfly

On the light violet or lavender any idea never seen one like it not very big 1 centimeter and half tried to get it's photo was not able too much flying around

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2018/09/13
16:09 UTC

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Beautiful Butterfly spoke comfort to the heart in Southern Utah! It landed on my brothers Lilac bush, very close to the moment his special cat passed away! His neighboor noticed this beauty & snapped a photo!

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2018/07/01
08:19 UTC

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Elephant Hawkmoth UK

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2018/06/25
11:45 UTC

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What type of butterfly is this ?

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2018/03/26
11:14 UTC

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Butterfly World

1 Comment
2017/07/04
05:41 UTC

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The white dragontail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly native to parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is one of the smallest swallowtails with a wingspan of just about 6 cm (2.5 in).

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2017/03/14
14:37 UTC

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The Southern birdwing (Troides minos) is India's largest butterfly. It is a highlight of many butterfly tours in the Western Ghats.

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2016/12/25
13:08 UTC

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Inchworms are the caterpillars of geometrid moths (Family Geometridae). Unique among caterpillars, inchworms have three pairs of front legs and either two or three pairs of rear legs (pro legs), but no legs in the center. This is the cause of their looping or inching style of walking.

4 Comments
2016/12/24
15:51 UTC

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The gorgeous Sloane's urania moth (Urania sloanus) was endemic to Jamaica, and is believed to have gone extinct in 1908. It was last reported in 1895. This is one of three specimens located in the Manchester Museum.

3 Comments
2016/12/03
18:39 UTC

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The California dogface butterfly is the state insect of California. It gets its name from the yellow silhouette of a “dogs head” on the male’s forewings.

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2016/11/26
16:14 UTC

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Queen Alexandra's birdwing is the largest butterfly in the world, with females reaching wingspans slightly in excess of 25 cm (9.8 inches). They are found in the Oro Province in eastern Papua New Guinea.

5 Comments
2016/11/19
16:36 UTC

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