I’m going to Payson with the Central Arizona Butterfly Assn today on a hike I’ve been looking forward to for months. It’s being led by two women well known in their fields of Lepidoptery and Botany so I’m bound to learn something! I joined the CAB in order to become familiar with the Butterflies I’m seeing in the yard but as it turns out, I was pleasantly surprised to find this group is really fun to photograph with. Not only am I learning during these outings but they stop a lot to document and discuss the species they see, as well as photograph them, so I have more than enough time to take ALL the photos I want. Click on the link at the beginning of this post to read about our destination. Then navigate to the Photos section to see some beautiful photos of Butterflies. There are some talented photographers in this group!
Here are two beauties I saw in my yard this week. Don’t know what they are (yet).
(Canon SX10 IS)
I have high hopes for photos of butterflies and flowers. Tomorrow’s post will tell whether I was successful 🙂
That first one is a hackberry butterfly (Asterocampis cf. celtis), and the second one looks like a sleepy orange (Eurema niccipe). Betcha didn’t know I knew butterflies, too! Well, I don’t, really, but I recognized the hackberry butterfly, and while double-checking my iPhoto butterfly “collection” to be sure, there was a photo of a sleepy orange right next to a hackberry. Blind luck, in other words.
I’m looking forward to seeing what you found in Payson!
@Steve Jones
AsterocampUs cf. celtis.