Butterfly
Alan Krause sent in this butterfly photo yesterday. He took this photo on July 25, 2007 at Devil’s Postpile National Monument.
Did you know the Devil had a postpile? I didn’t. That’s probably why they preserved it. It’s the loss of cultural heritage like this that’s bringing us all down.
I don’t have an ID for this bug, any takers? I suspect it’s a skipper of some sort but beyond that I have no clue.
Thanks, Alan!
Slowly getting the site back onto an even keel. It's nice to get back into the old posting rhythm.
tceisele said,
March 5, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
It looks like a Variegated Fritillary. I’ve got a picture of the caterpillar here, eating some of my wife’s petunias. They mostly eat violets, I’m not sure what it was doing on the petunias.
AJ said,
March 5, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
You don’t think humans are the only ones who go on fad diets, do you?
David Brady said,
March 5, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
tceisele: I don’t mean to nitpick but these bugs don’t look ANYTHING alike. Yours doesn’t even have wings!
JFargo said,
March 5, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
David Brady: Heh. Thanks for the good laugh.
As I kid I could never grok that one of THESE became one of THOSE. I mean, it just didn’t make any sense.
tceisele said,
March 6, 2008 @ 8:41 am
The Devil also seems to have an awful lot of washtubs (there’s one just a few miles from here, on the lakeshore, and I know I’ve heard of others). He must have a lot of laundry to do after piling all those posts.
AJ: Good point, the question is, what *kind* of fad diet is this? Weight control, or beauty, or long life? Maybe it’s time to start putting together an infomercial . . .
David Brady: Ha ha. Very funny