Butterfly

Jbailey · Post by **Jbailey** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:49 am

I found this beauty on Daisies in my back yard.

Jim

P_T · Post by **P_T** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:42 am

Oh look at that!! look like a pair of eyes don't they?

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:39 pm

It is Milbert’s Tortoiseshell Nymphalis milberti

http://www.wisconsinbutterflies.org/but ... pecies/185

Harold

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:21 am

Oh nice one,looks like our Large Tortoiseshell or as mom used to call them King George butterfly. Never knew why! And you did well with the exposure with all that white in the scene! Could easily have led to underexposure. Good one!

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:24 am

Good job there Jim, wing tip to wing tip. Nice work on the whites of the daisy too, I usually blow them all out.

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:19 am

Cyclops wrote:Oh nice one,looks like our Large Tortoiseshell or as mom used to call them King George butterfly. Never knew why! And you did well with the exposure with all that white in the scene! Could easily have led to underexposure. Good one!

There seems to be some confusion of two species here.

The only image I have been able to link to "King George butterfly" is of the Red Admiral, which the Wisconsin species resembles. The Large Tortoiseshell is rather different and is extinct in the UK, although my Observer's Book of Butterflies (no publication date but purchased in 1960) describes it as "often common in the caterpillar stage" but goes on to describe how a very high percentage were killed by parasites, mainly the Braconid waspApanteles[/url].

Harold

Jbailey · Post by **Jbailey** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:50 pm

Thanks, all for the comments and ID info.

Ken:

I use the highlights function on my camera's LCD to avoid burnt out whites as much as possible. It sometimes takes several shots, as you well know.

That was a great year for seeing many butterflies and cooperative ones at that! This year was essentially a bust by comparison.

Jim