Viewing post #477109 by jmorth

Kind of an amazing day today - saw 9 varieties including about a 100 blues/hairstreaks in the garden today. They were concentrated in 4 locations;
two were in mints and two in wildflower stands (Tall boneset and New England Aster). The other varieties - Red Spotted Purple, Skipper, Sulphur (maybe 2 var), White, Am Snout, Buckeye, and a Pearl Crescent. Got pics of all but the last one which I must have inadvertently discarded when culling the several hundred pics down to a manageable number.
Here's a selection - first my favorite view of the blues, when wings are spread (which isn't very often)-






Some close ups -



8 blues in this pic - - (opps, wrong pic here, see next post below for the 8)


American Snout w/ 3 blues -


Sulphur & 3 blues - With 6 blues -

Sulphur / sunflower -

Orange Sulphur ('alba' form} -


Cabbage White -




Buckeye -


Red Spotted Purple - Skipper -
(Latter two posted earlier today)