Okay, oniricwolf, here's your chance! This ought to keep you busy for awhile. :-) If anyone else knows (or wants to take a guess at) any of these, please do
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Wow, thanks, oniricwolf! (Is it okay to use your name, or do you prefer to just be oniricwolf (or Oniricwolf)?)
I’m glad you got the underside of your large butterfly
I just lucked out!
It is a Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia).
Whee! I always wanted to see a fritillary, just because it's a cool name! (The same reason I used to long to see a Tufted Titmouse and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker -- which I have, of course -- and a Blue-footed Booby, which I guess I'll have to go to the Galapagos some day to get. Although fritillary isn't as funny as those, it's still a great word!) And now I haven't just seen it, I have some really pretty pictures of one!
they decided to make the Northern Crescent (Phyciodes cocyta) a separate species from the Pearl Crescent (P. tharos).Oh, those dang lumpers and splitters. What a pain. They keep doing that with birds, too. I looked it up and at least this time it seems to be based on new information about them, but a lot of the time it seems to be just the philosophy of whoever is in power at
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I’m glad you got the underside of your large butterfly
I just lucked out!
It is a Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia).
Whee! I always wanted to see a fritillary, just because it's a cool name! (The same reason I used to long to see a Tufted Titmouse and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker -- which I have, of course -- and a Blue-footed Booby, which I guess I'll have to go to the Galapagos some day to get. Although fritillary isn't as funny as those, it's still a great word!) And now I haven't just seen it, I have some really pretty pictures of one!
they decided to make the Northern Crescent (Phyciodes cocyta) a separate species from the Pearl Crescent (P. tharos).Oh, those dang lumpers and splitters. What a pain. They keep doing that with birds, too. I looked it up and at least this time it seems to be based on new information about them, but a lot of the time it seems to be just the philosophy of whoever is in power at ( ... )
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