Yellow-bellied Visitors

Today’s post features another butterfly visitor to our Lake of the Ozarks (Missouri) butterfly garden this past summer, the Cloudless Sulphur. Typically a nice yellow color (as it’s name “sulphur” implies), there seemed to be several that were more white, or pale green, than the standard yellow.

The sulphurs were content on our large zinnia beds, but seemed to favor the wonderful “Blusing Suzy” vines (these are definitely on the list to grow from seed again next year!). Here are a few of my favorite images:

Cloudless Sulphur butterfly

Cloudless Sulphur butterfly

Cloudless Sulphur butterfly

Cloudless Sulphur butterfly

Coming up … more fly-in visitors we hosted this past summer.

 

Photographic Equipment Used:

  • Canon 5D Mark3 body
  • Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens
  • Handheld, with IS “On”
  • ISO 250 and ISO 400
  • Aperture f/5.6
  • Shutter Speed 1/2000 sec. to 1/6000 sec.

 

 

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