St Marys County Fair

 Just a few fun shots from the Fair on Sep 22nd.

Painted Lady Butterfly

Butterfly Season is Here

I cut some lavender colored lilacs recently and got to see my first butterflies this Spring.  I grabbed my cell phone and photographed a few Eastern Tiger Swallowtails with nice complimentary colors, purple and yellow.  There were lots of busy bees too, so I moved very slowly.

Exotic Butterflies 3

 Green Clipper

Possibly a Black Swallowtail

Pink  Cattleheart

 Julia Longwing

 Zebra Longwing

 Giant Swallowtail

Two Blue Morphos eating banana

  

 Giant Swallowtail

Possibly Black Swallowtails

Blue Morpho.  The inside of the wings is much more colorful.

Exotic Butterflies 2

 Emerald Swallowtail and more beautiful butterflies

 Blue Morpho

 Anyone know what this striped orange butterfly is?

 Male Grecian Shoemaker

 Zebra Longwing

Female Grecian Shoemaker

 Blue Morpho

 Anyone know what butterfly or moth this is?

 Blue Cracker

Small Postman

Julia Longwing

Exotic Butterflies

Blue Morpho Butterfly and a few other interesting butterflies

Banded Orange

 Atala

 Julia Longwing

Leopard Lacewing

Costa Rica Clearwing

 A Blue Morpho hides the color inside.  It is not actually blue.  The color it reflects looks blue.

Does anyone know what this one is?

 Sara Longwing

 Malachite

Great Mormon

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail emerging from Chrysalis

Yucatan Xcaret February 11, 2018 The Park

Xcaret near Playa del Carmen featured the natural world and culture of Mexico, including many animals.  There were several huge white pelicans.

     Macaw

     Chocolate making by hand

     Cacao

Waterfalls

     Malachite butterfly at the Butterfly Exhibit

      Birds at the Aviary

     Toucan

Turquoise browed motmot from Central America

     Chrysalis

     Mexican cemetery art

    Trick perspective in the gift shop

     Ball court

      Jellyfish

I loved the purple and yellow fish!

     Iguana

     Dolphin