Comma Butterfly 2016
by Karen Adams
Title
Comma Butterfly 2016
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints
Description
This is a Comma Butterfly, proper name is Polygonia comma, of the Nymphalidae family.
I was walking through the woods in Ohio on Easter Sunday with my family when this bright little thing darted past us. I didn't have my camera at the time and so I headed back to the same spot two days later. I stood for quite a while....waiting. It was a pleasant wait . . . a cool spring day, in the woods up on a hill above a peaceful lake . . . and suddenly this small thing flew right by, landing on dried leaves. I was very excited because this was my first official introduction to a Comma. A couple of years ago I captured (with my camera of course, a similar one called a Question Mark!) This view shows the ventral side of the wings. When you see my other image of this one's dorsal side you can see the mark which gives it its name. The Question Mark has a very similar marking, but obviously it looks more like that punctuation mark!
This butterfly was quite skittish and did not stay in any place long. My experience is that butterflies on flowers are much more likely to rest a little longer and give me a few more seconds to get a shot. I chuckle thinking how I must have looked to anyone watching as I hurried through the quiet woods chasing after this tiny flitter of a creature!
Overwintered adults, such as this one, fly and lay eggs in the spring until the end of April. The summer form emerges and flies from May-September, laying eggs that develop into the winter form. These adults appear in September or October and soon seek shelter in which to overwinter.
Butterflies are amazing!
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April 6th, 2016
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