A young male Rusty Metalmark (my gallery link) in my garden on a milkweed.
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Atenas, Costa Rica makes the Forbes list of best places to retire! 🙂 That link is to the Tico Times article.
Rusty Metalmark
Pale-banded Crescent
A tiny butterfly on a groundcover flower, the Pale-banded Crescent (my gallery link).
God has so many designs for butterflies that it is overwhelming! And brown is one of my favorite colors! 🙂
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Pale-banded Crescent
In my gallery I have 9 different species of Crescents and this one has been mostly seen here in Atenas. See my GALLERY: Pale-banded Crescent, Anthanassa tulcis (linked). Here’s three different views in my garden this June and the damaged wings you may have noticed on other butterfly photos I’ve shared this year. It is the wind! Though not all the time like January, it is blowing just as hard here in June, which is not normal! I believe it is a part of the human-caused climate change. Also note that this one is on one of my few Milkweed Flowers, which is also attracting other species, so I want to find another sunny spot for more.
And two more different view photos . . .
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A tiny little creature who stays close to the ground and on ground cover flowers like this. Not my first sighting, but first one this year. Formerly called Tulcis Crescent; see more photos in the Gallery: Pale-banded Crescent, Anthanassa tulcis.
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Tulcis Crescent
See more in my gallery of Tulcis Crescent, Anthanassa tulcis.
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