beautress
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Couldn't resist this one, and it looks like a blue morpho, except it has a sort-of swallow's tail.
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We may differ politically Becky but we sure do have the same interests outside of this forum!!!
This is a moth, that comes every year! It waits for days stuck to the screen webbing on the deck gazebo.... days and days and days, just stck to the screening...
THEN....
It's MATE comes.... they do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight!!! hahaha!
But what a beautiful Moth!
Doing the naughty when it's mate showed up
Damn! I lived in Tampa for nearly 10 years and had no idea they had Butterfly facilities! But I was young back then and only thought about going out dancing and drinking with friends and never in a million gazillion years did I think at that time in my life, I would want to live in a Country setting, rural, away from it ALL and in to Nature, like I do now, way up here!Thanks, Care4all. I hope the Sunshine State puts her best weather foot forward while you are staying there with your parents. Years ago, when my in-laws lived in Tampa, Florida, we visited a Butterfly facility in a large greenhouse with glassed entrance rooms to insure that no butterflies escaped from the interior gardens. It was so totally fascinating, we made sure every vacation after that had another butterfly garden somewhere we could visit. That one in central Florida was within an hour's drive from Tampa, though. I wish I had a better memory and could remember the name of the town. Seems we visited a cactus garden that was in the shape of the United States and each state had the same cacti species growing in it to give it a separate look from the neighboring states. Those were the days... Butterfly gardens that are outdoors have this little problem--the one not far from here we saw exactly two butterflies the whole time. Our little friends in the Lepidoptera order are shy, are often are not scheduled to escape their cocoons some days, so it's not like the amazing Cockrell Butterfly Garden, the Houston Museum of Natural History, where winged beauties are flitting a yard or two apart all the hours of the day. Cockrell Butterfly Center | Houston Museum Of Natural Science
I have absolutely no idea what they are....? I meant to look them up... but didn't or can't remember if I did at the time!This is a moth, that comes every year! It waits for days stuck to the screen webbing on the deck gazebo.... days and days and days, just stck to the screening...
THEN....
It's MATE comes.... they do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight!!! hahaha!
But what a beautiful Moth!
Doing the naughty when it's mate showed up
They're beautiful to me, Care4all. Thanks for sharing. Are those Atlas Moths? They sure have fabulous markings.
As I recollect, we drove at least an hour going either east or southeast from Tampa. Gosh, Care4all, it's been so many years ago, we may have driven further, but no, It was toward the east, but in central florida somewhere on the road between Tampa and Orlando, let me go look it up...Damn! I lived in Tampa for nearly 10 years and had no idea they had Butterfly facilities! But I was young back then and only thought about going out dancing and drinking with friends and never in a million gazillion years did I think at that time in my life, I would want to live in a Country setting, rural, away from it ALL and in to Nature, like I do now, way up here!Thanks, Care4all. I hope the Sunshine State puts her best weather foot forward while you are staying there with your parents. Years ago, when my in-laws lived in Tampa, Florida, we visited a Butterfly facility in a large greenhouse with glassed entrance rooms to insure that no butterflies escaped from the interior gardens. It was so totally fascinating, we made sure every vacation after that had another butterfly garden somewhere we could visit. That one in central Florida was within an hour's drive from Tampa, though. I wish I had a better memory and could remember the name of the town. Seems we visited a cactus garden that was in the shape of the United States and each state had the same cacti species growing in it to give it a separate look from the neighboring states. Those were the days... Butterfly gardens that are outdoors have this little problem--the one not far from here we saw exactly two butterflies the whole time. Our little friends in the Lepidoptera order are shy, are often are not scheduled to escape their cocoons some days, so it's not like the amazing Cockrell Butterfly Garden, the Houston Museum of Natural History, where winged beauties are flitting a yard or two apart all the hours of the day. Cockrell Butterfly Center | Houston Museum Of Natural Science