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Orange Sulfur - Colias eurytheme This was my first time photographing this species. I&#039;ve seen it several times this month -- often on the fields at my kids&#039; baseball games. <br />
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Habitat: Garden Alfalfa Butterfly,Coliadinae,Colias,Colias eurytheme,Geotagged,Lepidoptera,Orange Sulphur,Pieridae,Sulphur,Summer,United States,butterfly Click/tap to enlarge

Orange Sulfur - Colias eurytheme

This was my first time photographing this species. I've seen it several times this month -- often on the fields at my kids' baseball games.

Habitat: Garden

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"Colias eurytheme", the orange sulphur, also known as the alfalfa butterfly and in its larval stage as the alfalfa caterpillar, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, where it belongs to the lowland group of "clouded yellows and sulphurs" subfamily Coliadinae. It is found throughout North America from southern Canada to Mexico.

Similar species: Moths And Butterflies
Species identified by Christine Young
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Sep 22, 2021. Captured Sep 21, 2021 14:09 in 281 Main St S, Woodbury, CT 06798, USA.
  • Canon EOS 90D
  • f/8.0
  • 1/256s
  • ISO100
  • 100mm