Wednesday, June 03, 2009

New visitor to the DragonFly garden


This afternoon I photographed a new butterfly in the garden. According to my book it is the Pearl Crescent butterfly.

This butterfly is rather small with a wind span around 3 to 4 cm. It uses all Aster species as host plants.

The Pearl Crescent can be found through out Florida, mostly by roadsides in weed fields.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Great info and wonderful captures.

Dirt Princess said...

Love it. I want to try to snap some

Cheryl said...

Beautifully captured with your camera Rusty.....

Isn't it a joy when creatures like this come into our garden......

My Chutney Garden said...

Amazing amazing photos.
Thanks for sharing.
What are you shooting with?

Prospero said...

Rusty, you make a wonderful lepidopterist.

Jeanette said...

awesome pics of the butterfly Rusty