Lepidoptera Lovers: Butterfly Kisses

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a Flight of The Butterfly symphony

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkWomKyDgk"]Flight Of The Butterfly - Canon XHA1 HD Video - YouTube[/ame]
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California Butterflies
(recommend)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54_Du9ZE8I]720p HD California Butterflies in the Field 2008 - YouTube[/ame]
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[Douger]

Photo from my bedroom window.

 

[freedombecki]

Turning the sound to low might be more enjoyable... or not. To each his own.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC7UGEptluk]Exotic Spieces of Butterflies - YouTube[/ame]
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Enchanting butterflies

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJMWMMc-MG8]Butterfly.. - YouTube[/ame]
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Yesterday, I was out looking around and into my path flew a lovely young monarch butterfly. I have to say, my heart was in my throat for a few moments. No one has mentioned monarchs for quite some time here, I don't think, so for those who are not acquainted with the species here's a visual:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfsKPoM7wkU]Monarch Migration - Texas Parks and Wildlife [Official] - YouTube[/ame]
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[freedombecki]

Saw a little butterfly like this one, except smaller. there were a lot of them, seems the markings were different, some had more brown color on the wings than others, but they shared similar flight paths, same floral preferences, etc. This one was photographed 50 miles south of here, but the image is so large, I can't tell if it's the same one. Our little ones are between 2 and 3 inches from tip to tip, and their orange colors and edge patterns absolutely jump out when they are flitting about, looking for a sweet flower with nectar or whatever.

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[freedombecki]

I've been seeing a lot of these brilliant orange butterflies around the flowering summer shrubs in the spring wash area. Seems to be hundreds of them. The closest one in looks I could find is called "Orange Julia." Ours are just a tad more intense orange with no whitish spotches at all, but so showy you can't miss them, and they are just everywhere. They're eye candy!

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Phoebis sennae - Cloudless Sulphur

This short movie shows parts of the Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) butterfly's life cycle in time lapse. Scenes include larvae moving around on the host plant, larva shedding its final skin to pupate (part of the metamorphosis process), and finally emerging as an adult butterfly.​

[ame=http://youtu.be/GTUgUEpqBrA]Time Lapse - Phoebis sennae Butterfly Pupates-Emerges - YouTube[/ame]

 

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Blue Morphos emerge

Victoria Butterfly Gardens
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I've been here, and it's the most wonderful place for butterflies with total attention to their comfort and environment. People love it, too.

[ame=http://youtu.be/94AS7yyb_CE]Morpho - From Chrysalis to Butterfly - YouTube[/ame]

 

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Blue Morpho butterfly
Morpho peleides

The Blue Morpho Butterfly lives in the tropical rainforests of Latin America. As one might expect from its name, the butterfly has bright blue wings with a black border. Underneath, the wing is brown, which helps the Blue Morpho Butterfly to blend into the environment and hide from predators. The brown against the blue coloring also causes a flying Blue Morpho to seemingly disappear and reappear as its wings go up and down. Butterflies do not actually have pigmentation. Their wings are actually transparent and the colors we see come from scales on the back of the wings which reflect light. The Blue Morpho Butterfly is one of the world’s largest butterflies with a wingspan of 5 to 8 inches. The male butterfly is larger than the female. It is one of 80 different types of Morpho butterflies.

These colorful butterflies begin as an egg which is laid on the leaves of rainforest plants. When the larva or caterpillar emerges from the egg, it is brightly colored in reds and yellows. There are stiff hairs on its head that can irritate a human hand or anything else that touches them. After the caterpillar has eaten for several weeks it forms the pupa, which is green and shaped like an egg. By the time the adult Blue Morpho Butterfly erupts from the pupa, it will have less than a month to live. The Blue Morpho Butterfly lives for the most part in the lower parts of the rainforest, in shrubs and on the forest floor. When looking for a mate the butterfly will fly to all parts of the rainforest, and like most butterflies their entire adult focus is on reproduction. Although they live longer than many butterflies, the Blue Morpho still only has a lifespan of 115 days.


More at butterfly-facts dot com

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And this year, I finally got one of my butterfly designs sewed out for the first time onto a charity quilt...

 

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Butterflies are free

[ame=http://youtu.be/DTsoGCP1kZE]Butterflies are Free - YouTube[/ame]

 

[boedicca]

I love this poster from the Smithsonian:

"All Finite Things Reveal Infinitue"...with the letters from actual butterfly wings.

 

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Some wonderful south-of-the-border flying friends...

[ame=http://youtu.be/a9GCRgdCNJY]Mariposas - YouTube[/ame]

 

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The specie that was in Post 1 was removed sometime in the past (not sure when) and though possibly the same, it's not certain this is the same video, but here's another Blue Adonis butterfly that is quite beautiful imho:

 

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This one is dedicated to @testarosa, whose children are engaged in Monarch life studies!

[ame=http://youtu.be/QRNw0WhsJMw]Monarch Mania! Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle - YouTube[/ame]

 

[testarosa]

This one is dedicated to @testarosa, whose children are engaged in Monarch life studies!

Monarch Mania! Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle - YouTube

Awesome Beck!

I'll stick some pictures up here.

 

[freedombecki]

This one is dedicated to @testarosa, whose children are engaged in Monarch life studies!

Monarch Mania! Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle - YouTube

Awesome Beck!

I'll stick some pictures up here.

Soon, I hope!

 

[freedombecki]

In the meantime, we've got Rosy Maple Moths pictured over at the quilt thread, where I'm making another embroidered quilt square all of butterflies (and other stuff).

I'm starting this one as an embroidery soon. Got it hooped up this morning, then found a ton of messages to answer when I got here a couple of hours ago! lol!