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  • Giant Swallow-tail Portrait

    Giant Swallow-tail Portrait

    20150509-080047-_DSC1238

  • Male Blue Dasher Portrait

    Male Blue Dasher Portrait

    20150509-094441-_DSC1273

  • Bee foraging

    Bee foraging

    20150711-080826-_D4S4850

  • Predator or Prey

    Predator or Prey

    20150809-121555-_DSC6915

  • Eyes

    Eyes

    20150809-121604-_DSC6919

  • Honey Bee Macro

    Honey Bee Macro

    20150809-121634-_DSC6924

  • Honey bee on porterweed

    Honey bee on porterweed

    20150815-094838-_DSC7034

  • Honey Bee Portrait

    Honey Bee Portrait

    20150815-094954-_DSC7044

  • Bee Portrait

    Bee Portrait

    20150815-095019-_DSC7054

  • Beefeeder

    Beefeeder

    20150815-095911-_DSC7086

  • Probing Straw

    Probing Straw

    20150815-102920-_DSC7149

  • Skipper

    Skipper

    20150815-102920-_DSC7150

  • Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)

    Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)

    20150815-134536-_DSC7172

  • Gulf Fritillary

    Gulf Fritillary

    20150816-085728-_DSC7274

  • Blue-green Metallic Bee - Chrysis angolensis

    Blue-green Metallic Bee - Chrysis angolensis

    20150816-090025-_DSC7281

  • Metallic Paint Job

    Metallic Paint Job

    20150816-090138-_DSC7289

  • Bee visiting Firebush

    Bee visiting Firebush

    20150816-090537-_DSC7312

  • Ruddy Daggerwing

    Ruddy Daggerwing

    20150816-090658-_DSC7319

  • Robber Fly

    Robber Fly

    20150821-141333-_DSC7356-2

  • Robber Fly Dangerous Biter

    Robber Fly Dangerous Biter

    20150821-141333-_DSC7356

  • Dragon Predator

    Dragon Predator

    20150821-141411-_DSC7361

  • Purple Dragon

    Purple Dragon

    Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly
Orthemis ferruginea

  • Purple Dragon

    Purple Dragon

    Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly
Orthemis ferruginea

  • Purple Dragon

    Purple Dragon

    Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly
Orthemis ferruginea

  • Cerambycid Beetle (Hippopsis lemniscata)

    Cerambycid Beetle (Hippopsis lemniscata)

    20150905-091039-_DSC7699

  • Acacesia hamata

    Acacesia hamata

    20150905-125115-_DSC7790

  • Smile - Halloween Pennant Dragonfly

    Smile - Halloween Pennant Dragonfly

    20150905-125849-_DSC7810

  • Bee on her Collection rRoute

    Bee on her Collection rRoute

    20150906-085428-_DSC7849

  • Fangs

    Fangs

    20150906-112800-_DSC7929

  • White Peacock Butterfly

    White Peacock Butterfly

    20150907-164444-_DSC8007

  • Tiphiid Wasp

    Tiphiid Wasp

    20150907-165207-_DSC8042

  • Banded Wasp

    Banded Wasp

    20150907-165208-_DSC8045

  • Syngamia florella (Red Waisted Florella Moth)

    Syngamia florella (Red Waisted Florella Moth)

    20150907-170656-_DSC8059

  • Horsefly feeding on plant

    Horsefly feeding on plant

    20150907-170714-_DSC8063

  • Carpenter Bee

    Carpenter Bee

    20150907-170801-_DSC8075

  • Labena grallator - Florida Wasp

    Labena grallator - Florida Wasp

    20150907-171134-_DSC8104

  • Golden Orb Weaver Portrait

    Golden Orb Weaver Portrait

    20150912-130658-_DSC8317

  • Zelus longipes - milkweed assassin bug

    Zelus longipes - milkweed assassin bug

    20150913-084753-_DSC8461

  • Tropical Checkered Skipper

    Tropical Checkered Skipper

    20150913-085245-_DSC8502

  • Elampus viridis

    Elampus viridis

    20150919-103614-_DSC8905

  • Elampus viridis

    Elampus viridis

    20150919-103615-_DSC8906

  • Milkweed bug nymph

    Milkweed bug nymph

    20150919-104411-_DSC8922

  • Queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus)

    Queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus)

    The queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae with a wingspan of 70–88 mm (2.8–3.5 in).[2] It is orange or brown with black wing borders and small white forewing spots on its dorsal wing surface, and reddish ventral wing surface fairly similar to the dorsal surface. The ventral hindwings have black veins and small white spots in a black border. The male has a black androconial scent patch on its dorsal hindwings.[3] It is found throughout the tropics and into the temperate regions of the Americas, Asia and Africa. It can be found in a variety of locations: depending on its habitat location, the butterfly can be found in meadows, fields, marshes, deserts, and at the edges of forests.[3][4]

This species is possibly a close relative to the similarly colored soldier butterfly (or "Tropic queen"; Danaus eresimus); in any case, it is not close to the plain tiger (Danaus chrysippus) as was long believed. There are seven subspecies.[5]

Females lay one egg at a time on larval host plants.[3] Larvae use these plants as a food source,[6] whereas adult butterflies feed mainly on nectar from flowers.[7] Unpalatability to avian predators is a feature of the butterfly; however, its level is highly variable. Unpalatability is correlated with the level of cardenolides obtained via the larval diet, but other compounds like alkaloids also play a part in promoting distastefulness.[8][9]

Males patrol to search for females, who may mate up to 15 times a day.[3] Male organs called hair-pencils play an important role in courtship, with males with lower hair-pencil levels being selected against.[10] These hair-pencils may be involved in releasing pheromones during courtship that could attract female mates.[11]

  • Clouded Skipper (Lerema accius)

    Clouded Skipper (Lerema accius)

    20150919-105541-_DSC8952

  • Carpenter Ant Portrait

    Carpenter Ant Portrait

    20150919-105956-_DSC8955

  • Starbellied Orbweaver (Acanthepeira stellata)

    Starbellied Orbweaver (Acanthepeira stellata)

    20150920-083821-_DSC9044

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