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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Red-Spotted Purple Admiral


red-spotted purple admiral integrade

I have to get to bed- day 3 of paper route coming up. Here's a lovely Red-Spotted Purple Admiral butterfly intergrade. It's known as an intergrade between the White Admiral and the true Red-Spotted Purple Admiral. Scientific name is Limenitis arthemis astyanax.



9 comments:

RNSANE said...

Now give me that beauty over a tarantula any day of the week!

John | Daily Photo said...

Beautiful :-) Butterflies rarely stay still long enough for me to get a photo :-(

Karen and Gerard said...

Great butterfly picture--they are very pretty! I don't see too many around here.

vanilla said...

Beautiful. I like that you posed it against the pine needle background.

jeanlivingsimple said...

Thanks for the info and the fine photo!

Sandy said...

Beautiful, makes me think of my brother as a kid butterflies were everywhere and he loved them, chased them, collected them, studied them while everyone else was playing baseball.
You're a paper boy/person now?

Ann said...

it's beautiful, nice shot

Interesting Pictures said...

nice capture

Sharkbytes (TM) said...

carmen- yes, the colors are definitely better!

John- I get lucky once in a while

Karen- that's sad- many butterfly species are in trouble, but I wonder why you don't see many at all

vanilla- yes, I worked really hard on that... and the lighting too. hahahahaha

Jean- it's the two halves of my brain- love the beauty, but have to know what it is

Jean- thank you- the butterfly cooperated by holding still

Sandy- childhood collections often lead to adult professions- papers are hubby's job- he's off for his yearly vacation

Ann- i do love the colors in this one.

hi IP- thank you