Mild night produced 14 #moths of 5 species. Still the usual quakers and drabs, but had a mint Hebrew Character, and probably my very earliest Bright-line Brown-eye - not the prettiest of moths, but this is particularly early in the year to be seeing them. Another few weeks and numbers/diversity will pick up and species will change.

#NewSpecies!
New moth from #china:

Sinarella jinggangshana

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/77B6DDF2-C5A6-5873-9DAB-1FA2C7E83897
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e139845
#BioDataJournal #SinarellaJinggangshana

#FAIRdata
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As the sun sets on this Thursday, I took a flashlight lit photograph of a Pipevine Swallowtail beginning to emerge.

Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)

Hemaris tityus. Especie de mariposa de la familia Sphingidae, distribuida por la Europa templada y Oriente medio hasta el oeste de China, aunque en general es una especie escasa. Las larvas se alimentan sobre escabiosas, Knautia arvensis y Succisa pratensis. Los adultos alcanzan una envergadura de 40-50 mm. En la imagen una cópula de esta especie.
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European peacock butterfly, Aglais io, filling all 12 megapixels of my pocket camera. Let me get real close.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/268092179

Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia)
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
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Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
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Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
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Banded Hairstreak (Satyrium calanus)
Driftless Area, Dane County, WI, USA
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The mourning cloak butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) came back for an encore this afternoon. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography

Hypolimnas bolina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Butterfly aviary at the OPIE (Office pour les insectes et leur environnement) Maison des Insectes, Carrières-Sous-Poissy, France

Published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2qxjfQW

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#photography #insect #wildlife #mywork #butterfly

Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus)
Driftless Area, Dane County, WI, USA
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Tawny emperor (Asterocampa clyton)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
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Tawny emperor (Asterocampa clyton)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
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Hackberry emperor (Asterocampa celtis)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
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First butterfly of the year! A mourning cloak butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) in the backyard this afternoon. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography

More Common Quakers (pic 1) and Clouded Drabs (pic 2), but first sighting in 2025 of an Early Thorn, one of the leaf-mimic moths. Not as bright and colourful as some of the thorn moths in the height of summer but nice to see one nonetheless (pics 3 & 4). See how the light affects its colouration. 3 & 4 are the same moth.

Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) female, dark color form
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Baraboo, WI, USA
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