@norbertkondla there were a lot of Oreas/Hoary butterflies. This one I felt looked like Oreas but not sure on a lot of the others seen at this location. A lot of the host plant for the Oreas in the area
Growing in along a Subalpine mountain meadow along Nickle plate Road just West of Apex Village.
A male Anicia Checkeredspot mud puddling along a ditch near Grand Oro Road.
A female drinking nectar from Ascelpas speciousa Showy Milkweed flowers.
A Male drinking nectar from Canada Goldenrod Solidago canadiensis; along the shore of Twin Lakes BC.
A male rating on the sand along Grand Oro road.
A Male Christina Sulphur flying along Grand Oro road.
A Male Zephyr Comma puddling along Grand Oro road.
3Females drinking nectar from Canada Golden Rod Solidago Canadiens near the shore of Twin Lakes BC.
A Male Satyrium Titus drinking nectar from Golden Goldenrod. Along Twin Lakes.
Near White Lake drinking nectar from Parsnip Flowered Buckwheat Erigonium heracloides. Here you see 2 different forms. These could be a pair.
A Female Boisduval’s blue; the Sagebrush half moon/ sooty hairstreak look alike drinking nectar from Erigonium heracloides the Parsnip flowered Buckwheat.
A male keeping watch against intruders.
A female sunbathing on a leg in the sun.
I saw several specimens of this species but I wasn’t able to get any good photos of them. I saw 7 on Saturday. Some were drinking nectar from sagebrush buttercups.
I caught this male specimen on July 25, 2003 on the edge of my friends’s neighbour’s driveway. It was perched on a Verbena bracteata {Bracted vervain.}
20’c mostly sunny breezy This was one of 21 swallowtails seen congregating, and appeared to possibly be two tailed with the rest being tiger and pale?
Sex is male. It was one of the first species of hairstreaks that I seen in Olalla BC that year.
Here's a Female puddling In a Large Puddle Near Km2 just West of Olalla Creek Canyon Road Similkameen Valley, Olalla , British Columbia, Canada.
The next photo I captured it to show the dorsal view of inside the wings of this handsome male Christina Sulphur.
Cone scales thin, pale, and jagged. Pretty sure the cones came from the photographed tree. In the last photo, tallest tree in the centre
A male. He was resting on the pathway on the ground just in front of one of the Salix discolour Pussy Willow see photo 2 near Robbie Creek photo one is him sunbathing on a white stem gooseberry bush Ribes inerme and this is photo 1.
A Queen hibernating under a black cottonwood decaying branch.
A drone resting on my mom’s Prunus tormentors Nanking Cherry shrub leaf.
glorious sunny days are bringing out butterflies; small white, painted lady and red admiral
South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area, above Osoyoos West Bench, BC, Canada
When I was photographing Tsuga Mertensia the Mountain hemlock; I also found myself photographing Amabilis fir and Yellow Cedar.
Observed while surveying Sylvan Lake personal transect. Flying around by the lakeshore. Landed on a birch and then along the edge of an old wood pile. Not sure if I have the ID right - I think its a Comma of some kind but I might have the wrong species.
A note to anyone editing data quality or annotations: This specimen was alive when I collected it, and the data given reflect the time and place when the insect was observed alive.
Please adhere to iNat’s guidelines and do not mark this observation as “captive” or “dead”, as this causes problems for researchers attempting to find species records.
iNat's definition of a "wild" observation explicitly includes "your museum/herbarium specimens that are appropriately marked with date and location of original collection". The data given are the date and location of original capture, and as such, this observation should not be marked as captive. See #5 of the observation FAQ on the forum: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#captive
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Thanks!
Butterfly
1 shot and it was gone. 2400 m. Cathedral Provincial Park, BC, Canada
on willlow at Lake of the Woods, abvout 2000 metres elevation
A male sunbathing on a dead tree branch. All photos are of it alive except for The ventral photo it is dead because I collected it for my collection. Some of the Black Mine road specimens are very dark almost like the Silenus subspecies of Oreas Comma. This could be where both Threatfuli and Silenus overlap and we may see a mixture of both subspecies.
More studies needed to confirm this hypothesis.
Winter form.
The third spot on the hind wing is very faint in this individual.