While seeking birds the past six weeks, I tried my hand at capturing our summer’s butterflies and skippers at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge’s Bayview Butterfly Garden and trail.
I’m sharing a photo collection of all the butterflies (15) and skipper (3) species I was lucky to capture and hopefully identified correctly. If I’ve misidentified any, please, please let me know, butterfly experts!
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Monarch
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Cabbage White
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Pearl Crescent
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Summer Azure
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Variegated Fritillary
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Eastern Tailed-blue
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Hobomok (or Zabulon?) Skipper
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Common Buckeye
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Silver-spotted Skipper
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Unidentified Skipper
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Clouded or Orange Sulphur
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Clouded or Orange Sulphur
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Cloudless Sulphur
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Red-spotted Purple
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
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Spicebush Swallowtail (female)
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Black Swallowtail
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and finally, the last one….
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Zebra Swallowtail
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“Butterflies.…flowers that fly and all but sing.” – Robert Frost
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A peek at the gardens and fields of flowers at the refuge where the butterflies love to hang out.
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I have more pretty shots of these butterfly species for another post.
