male Julia orangetip butterfly

updated to reflect changes in species

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

That's one hairy butterfly, nice find! Posted 8 years ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  My husband spotted this one. It was stuck in the mud... I guess it went to get a drink and got sucked down. We pulled it out without causing, I hope, much damage to it's wings, but I don't know if it will have survived the ordeal. It was still muddy. It wasn't the only casualty of the sticky mud - I noticed some sort of little fly in the photo just in the upper right corner. Posted 8 years ago, modified 8 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Now matter how little the gesture, it still feels good to free an insect. Our drive way has a roofed area with a glass ceiling. Dragonflies flying under it stupidly keep flying into that ceiling as they see it as their escape. I have to "rescue" several of them regularly. Posted 8 years ago

The Southern Rocky Mountain orangetip

"Anthocharis julia" is a type of butterfly found in the southern Rocky Mountains on the eastern side of the range. Their caterpillars feed on rock cress species. Adults feed on flower nectar from host plants as well as thistles, fiddleneck, and brodiaeas. Its habitats include foothill canyons and washes, usually in oak woodland, as well as forested riparian areas.

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Similar species: Moths And Butterflies

Species identified by morpheme