Gulf fritillary
Apr 16, 2020 15:41:35 #
My wife, a part of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Master Naturalist program, has populated our backyard with a pollinator garden and native plants. The purple passionflower is a pollinator plant that attracts the Gulf fritillary, Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus). I missed the butterflies this morning but caught some of the caterpillars this afternoon.
Shot with an AF-S micro Nikkor 85 mm with various shutter speeds as aperture priority was set to f22.
Shot with an AF-S micro Nikkor 85 mm with various shutter speeds as aperture priority was set to f22.
Apr 16, 2020 15:42:08 #
Apr 16, 2020 16:08:46 #
Apr 16, 2020 17:24:10 #
newsguygeorge wrote:
My wife, a part of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Master Naturalist program, has populated our backyard with a pollinator garden and native plants. The purple passionflower is a pollinator plant that attracts the Gulf fritillary, Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus). I missed the butterflies this morning but caught some of the caterpillars this afternoon.
Shot with an AF-S micro Nikkor 85 mm with various shutter speeds as aperture priority was set to f22.
Shot with an AF-S micro Nikkor 85 mm with various shutter speeds as aperture priority was set to f22.
Nice one, we have milkweed plants to attract monarchs.
Apr 19, 2020 20:16:00 #
Excellent download and I have some of the blue and also purple passion flowers; Now if I can only coach the gulf fritillary just a little farther north! 
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