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Category Archives: Butterfly Photography
Fun Friday: Table For 2 Please!
Today’s post features a couple of Silver-spotted Skipper butterflies as they share a “table”, using a zinnia flower as their dinner table: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D Mark3 body Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens Handheld, with IS “On” ISO 400 Aperture f/5.6 Shutter Speed 1/6000 sec.
Also posted in 2020, Blog, Flower, Fun Friday post, Insect Photography, Nature Photography
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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 […]
Also posted in 2020, Blog, Flower, Insect Photography, Nature Photography
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Spicebush Swallowtails
Today’s post features some of the many (and I mean many!) Spicebush Swallowtail butterflies that visited our Lake of the Ozarks (Missouri) butterfly garden this summer. Hardly a day went by without seeing at least 2-3 of these beautiful butterflies: They were frequent visitors to the zinnias and the “Blushing Suzy” flowering vines. Nectar was […]
Also posted in 2020, Blog, Flower, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
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Hasta la Vista, Baby!
Today’s featured image was captured in our Lake of the Ozarks (Missouri) flower garden, shortly after release of this Monarch butterfly into the wild. This Monarch was the third one we released over one week … all were brought into our “Monarch nursery” as caterpillars. Within days, the caterpillars morphed into chrysallises, and eventually transforming […]
Also posted in 2020, Blog, Insect Photography, Nature Photography
Tagged Lake of the Ozarks, Monarch
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Life Continues
Today’s post features a couple of Monarch butterfly chrysallises that have been busy transforming into beautiful Monarch butterflies, in my Lake of the Ozarks (Missouri) garage. These photos were captured shortly before the adult Monarch eclosed from the chrysallis (in the first image, note you can start to see the patterned orange/black wings, through the […]
Also posted in 2020, Blog, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
Tagged Lake of the Ozarks, Monarch
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Alien Life Form?
Today’s post features a couple of images I captured over the weekend. As the great Monarch butterfly migration towards Mexico progresses, I have a total of five Monarch “cats” that have been busy transforming into chrysalises (or, is that chrysali?). I managed to capture a lot of images of this metamorphosis, and I’m working on […]
Also posted in 2020, Blog, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
Tagged Lake of the Ozarks, Monarch
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Cats Galore!
Today’s post features some of the many Monarch “cats” (caterpillars) that we’ve been finding in our Lake of the Ozarks butterfly garden. We have quite a lot of milkweed plants, which is the Monarch’s host plant. For the past 2-3 weeks, the Monarch activity around the garden here has been quite high. Here are a […]
Also posted in 2020, Blog, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tagged Lake of the Ozarks, Monarch
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Fun Friday: Eggs-citing Times
Today’s “Fun Friday” post features a highlight for us this time of the year … the last of the migrating Monarchs have arrived! Today’s images were captured recently in our lakeside butterfly garden, where some Monarch butterfly eggs were observed on some Tropical Milkweed plant leaves: Cropping the same image to a much larger image: […]
Also posted in 2020, Blog, Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tagged Lake of the Ozarks, Monarch
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Buckeye
Today’s post features the Buckeye butterfly … the one with “eyes on it’s wings”. This common butterfly is almost always present in our lakeside butterfly garden. Here are a few of my favorite images: Coming up … more lakeside visitors. Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D Mark 3 body Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens Handheld, […]
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A Tiger Showed Up!
Today’s post features another beautiful butterfly that showed up yesterday afternoon in our Lake of the Ozarks (Missouri) butterfly garden … the Tiger Swallowtail. This is not the first one seen this year, but the first one that I was able to capture with my camera. Here are my favorites. First stop was a second-year […]
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Tagged butterfly, Lake of the Ozarks
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