The First Butterfly 2019

by Karen Adams

Title

The First Butterfly 2019

Artist

Karen Adams

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Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography

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It was an early morning on a Spring day in Ohio, April 17, 2019 to be exact and I was really not expecting to see a butterfly. A bright flash of orange fluttered by me and I knew right away what it was! I had seen a few little Cabbage Whites already, but those are so common, I don't get too excited about them. But, to have an American Lady so early in my still mostly brown garden was a thrill. This little one was trying to warm itself in the low cool morning light which gave me several chances to get a good picture of it.

American Lady butterflies, (Vanessa virginiensis,) are members of the Nymphalidae family. They are a medium sized butterfly, about 1 3/4 - 2 5/8 inches. I am always amazed at how these delicate creatures make it through such harsh winters and just seem to magically appear as soon as there are a few nice days strung together. How do they do that? The upperside of the wings has an uneven brown, yellow, and orange pattern. The forewing has a black patch, and a small white spot in the orange field below the patch with a white bar at the leading edge of the forewing. The underside of hindwing has two large eyespots. Winter form is smaller and paler than the summer form which tends to be larger with brighter coloring. This one in early Spring was certainly a bright and cheering welcoming sign of things to come!

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May 10th, 2019

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