After our visiting of the Lipold and Glenwood Reserves the other day, we traveled on to the Peck Farm Park in Geneva. The area around the farm has been naturalized and becomes a perfect place for school age children to learn about nature. There are programs about insects, butterflies, plants, and the environment. There are field trips to the farm or they will present programs at the schools.
Today we wanted to see the butterflies. It was wonderful. The butterflies were very active. We had to watch where we were walking, as they were on the ground as well as on the flowers.
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| Buckeye, The distinction is the 8 eyespots. |
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| Julia, This butterfly is more a native to Florida Keys. |
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| Zebra |
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| White Peacock, is mainly a southern range butterfly. It is not as strong a flier as the Buckeye. It likes S Florida and S Texas. |
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| Monarch |
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| Buckeyes |
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| Painted Lady can be found in all of North America, as well as south to Panama and naturalized in Hawaii. |
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| Painted Lady and Monarch |
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| Monarch |
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| White Peacock |
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| Julia |
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| Julia |
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| Pipevine Swallowtail |
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| I think this is the Cloudless Sulfur |
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| Pipevine Swallowtail |
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| :Painted Lady |
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| Julia, this is the male. |
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| A tattered Julia |
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| Buckeye and White Peacock |
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| Pipevine Swallowtail |
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| Buckeye |
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| Male and female, Julia |
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| Male and female Julia |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Julia |
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| Cloudless Sulfur |
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| Cloudless Sulfur, I was able to catch it with its wings down It is the one above. They usually sit with their wings folded. |
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| I think this is a Sleepy Orange Sulfur enjoying the Petunia |
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| Painted Lady sat on my shoulder. |
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| See the swallowtail on the bottom of the sign. It is a Spicebush Swallowtail. It seemed to want to let you know this was his picture! |
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| Here is a closeup of the Spicebush Swallowtail, that is missing part of his tail. |
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| Monarch |
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| Great Southern White |
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| Pipevine Swallowtail |
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Julia
The facility has a card that shows which butterflies they usually have on display. The one black butterfly, I am not sure of. It did not look like any on the card.
There was another person there taking pictures of the butterflies, too. I find them fascinating, and oh so colorful. |
1 comment:
Oh my! I oohed and ahhed while scrolling through all of these stunning butterfly photographs! So very gorgeous! I especially loved the photograph of the 3 buckeyes on the yellow/orange flowers and all of the Pipevine Swallowtail and White Peacock images. All are lovely though. A feast for the eyes!
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