I found it in a blueberry bush when I was picking blueberries near Castle Creek, New York today. He (or she) actually stood still long enough that I wondered if the butterfly was somehow stuck in the blueberry bush. Unfortunately, I could not get the entire butterfly in the picture.
Here's another view, taken right before the mystery butterfly took off.
I'm thinking, from this web page, common buckeye but it doesn't seem to have round spots you see in the picture.
Considering how much I love flowers, I know very little about butterflies, but I'm confident one of my fine readers will give me an ID.
And the blueberries? It's late in the season, but even with all our rain, they are still coming. (Had to dodge some sweat bees and yellow jackets, though.)
Incidentally - I made my pictures a little larger. If you find these hard to load on your mobile device, though, please be sure to let me know.
Pictures loaded fine. I have no idea what that is and could not find it in google images. Maybe it's colors have mutated.
ReplyDeleteDenise, when I saw the "white admiral" ID below I looked on Google and the first few pictures didn't look like mine. But then I found one that did. Now I have another mystery butterfly seen today on some zinnias in Binghamton, New York but will try to ID it on my own.
DeleteI hope someone IDed the butterfly. I have no idea. Beautiful colors, though.
ReplyDeleteIt was beautiful. And I did get an ID.
DeleteWhite Admiral, Limenitis arthemis arthemis
ReplyDeleteThank you, Elizabeth! (I'd better start studying a butterfly book because I have another butterfly to try to ID now.)
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