Today I saw a large number of these orange butterflies. Dauphin Island is in the middle of a butterfly migration route, and via cruinne's new picture blog, we should also start seeing monarchs pretty soon. They migrate en masse through here in the spring, making it hard to not hit them with the car.
Meanwhile, I also caught this pair of insects mating in the bushes. They flew off before I could get a better picture.
In other news, a lot of the Spartina have sprouted some frilly tops. I don't remember it being quite that tassled up there before.
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Edit: due to technical difficulties, this post was accidentally deleted and had to be reconstructed. Below was the comment on the original post.
cruinneOct 16, 2014, 2:43:00 PM
Insect voyeur!
