#mourning cloak butterfly

[fatchance]

Mourning cloak.

Nymphalis antiopa at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, Cochise County, Arizona.

#photographers on tumblr #butterfly #mourning cloak butterfly #Nymphalis antiopa #Ramsey Canyon Preserve #The Nature Conservancy #Cochise County #Arizona

[redrumrose]

Stardust Chords

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Did a small touch up to an old drawing of Sunny ^^ Still one of my favs.

#oc #mad scientist #greta van fleet #gvf #retro #halftone #vintage #hippie #mad entomologist #character design #cartoon #my art #redrumrose #sunny #mourning cloak butterfly

[patriciastrike]

tattered wings

#daffodils #butterfly #spring #original photography #mourning cloak butterfly

[teacupchimera]

redrew an oc I drew a couple years ago and I'm really pleased with how she came out! her name is eloise and her design/wings are based on a mourning cloak butterfly :D

please reblog if you enjoy! <3

#my art #art #artists on tumblr #sabertooth #sabertooth tiger #oc #original character #mourning cloak #mourning cloak butterfly #butterfly

[arterseesabug]

Mourning cloaks again.

#insects #insect #butterflies #mourning cloak butterfly #butterfly

[inkteresting-art]

Got my first Mourning Cloak butterfly this morning, got 4 more to wait on coming out, hoping they will emerge in a few days

#Butterflies #Butterfly #mourning cloak butterfly #Bugs #Fandom's Issues

[dkt5d]

Mourning Cloak stopped by, have not seen to many of them around lately.

#mourning cloak butterfly #butterfly #socal #photographers on tumblr #tumblr photographers

[jonnysinsectcatalogue]

Mourning Cloak Butterfly - Nymphalis antiopa

It’s a bit early to revisit this magnificent dark-winged insect, but I have good reason to do so. The prior posts showed specimens at rests with their wings folded up, and while the wings remain folded up, this elusive Brush-Footed Butterfly resembles a dried leaf. Very inconspicuous if you happen to perch on a branch, among leaf litter or as it feeds on nectar or tree sap. While useful to avoid predation, it means photographers get only a fleeting chance to see the scales on the wings’ dorsal sides. Looking through some of the older photos, looks like I had a lucky find on the porch with an individual who was briefly sunning before taking off. Behold: a smooth brown and black blending, yellow borders and little blue accents! What a beautiful sight! This combination of colors is quite similar to that of the Eastern Black Swallowtail (one of my favorites to photograph). If you compare the two however, there’s no mistaking which is which. Furthermore, while the Swallowtail’s males and females can be distinguished at a glance, the Mourning Cloak requires a more technical approach...unless you see it patrolling over a territory, that’s a male. 

Seeing the dorsal colors of the Mourning Cloak, I see a little more credibility to the whole “resembles a Carolina Locust in flight” observation. Not to dwell on it too long, but both insects don’t even fly the same way. I guess that’s my advice to you if you see something fly by quickly with yellow borders around the wings. To further touch on the wing color of this Butterfly (and other members of the Nymphalis genus), the Mourning Cloak’s genus has a common name: the Tortoiseshells. From what I gather, they are so named for their dorsal wing colors: orange, brown and black. The Mourning Cloak falls on the dark side of the color wheel, while other species such as the California and Compton Tortoiseshells (2 North American species) prominently sport vibrant orange wings with dark borders and spots (dorsally). The Mourning Cloak seems larger than the latter two examples as well, so if you’re going Tortoiseshell hunting, watch for the smaller Butterflies; they aren’t likely to be Monarch-sized, even if they wear similarly colored wing scales. I’ve yet to find some myself, but I’ll look carefully and hopefully open a new area for the blog. 

Pictures were taken on July 4, 2017 with a Samsung Galaxy S4. Next week, a second look at another pretty Butterfly that warrants more exploration. 

#jonny’s insect catalogue #ontario insect #butterfly #mourning cloak #mourning cloak butterfly #brush footed butterfly #lepidoptera #insect #toronto #july2017 #2017 #entomology #nature #invertebrates

[thecreatureawaits]

Creature Awaits #222

Each week I plan to feature an amazing creature, admiring God's fantastic artistry. Hopefully it’ll brighten someone’s day to see something new and interesting if they haven’t seen it before. : )

(Gorgeous photography taken by the highly-skilled Andrew McKinlay (CC BY-NC 2.0))

The Mourning Cloak Butterfly

A.K.A: The Camberwell Beauty (United Kingdom), Rouwmantel (The Netherlands), Sorgmantel (Sweden), Trauermantel (Germany), Suruvaippa (Finland), Sørgekåpe (Norway)

Scientific Name: Nymphalis antiopa

Region: Throughout the Northern Hemisphere

Size: About a 4" (~10.2cm) wingspan in the Adult phase

Interesting Notes: Despite the bright patterning along its dorsal side, these beautiful butterflies camouflage well when threatened by tightly closing their wings to reveal a tree bark-like patterning and "playing dead" - tucking in their legs and holding completely still until certain the danger has passed.

#Mourning Cloak Butterfly #Camberwell Beauty #Rouwmantel #Sorgmantel #Trauermantel #Suruvaippa #Sørgekåpe #creatureawaits #beautiful insects #beautiful animals #elegant animals #butterflies #patterns #playing dead

[petra-creat0r]

Does POW-R have any massive Status quo changing events?

Think the things that bring every hero from the Streaks to the stars to fight against one massive threat

Or the events where heroes lose All ability to think and just start hitting each other

Uuuuuh. The Chimera Kids incident. Annise killing Owen? Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

#ask #crossovanon #POW-R #Chimera Kids #Annise Lewis #Owen Lewis #butterfly princess #butterfly lord #mourning cloak butterfly #super hero #super villain

[cricketchirp]

The Extraordinary Ordinary

I love to venture off and explore other places but more and more I feel drawn to just head out the back door and see what this land of field and forest and vernal pools and puddles has to offer. And so I do. Almost daily. It’s land where the Red Maples are in full flowering mode, this cluster being male, each with five to ten slender stamens. As beautiful as the flowers are, one of the real…

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#Maine #Mourning Cloak Butterfly #tadpoles #western Maine

[sunshinesight]

The bookshelf design, aka “dark academia.”

#crows #frogs #books #book shelf #snake #cicadas #moths #mourning cloak butterfly #roses #dark #goth #insects #dark academia #twine wip #work in progress #background #working on it #Spoonfower #sarahkdesigns #Sarah Knight

[patriciastrike]

The mourning cloak butterfly is one of the first butterflies to appear in spring in our area, and one of the last to be seen in the fall. 

#mourning cloak butterfly #butterfly #spring #original photography #photographers on tumblr

[crudlynaturephotos]

#nature video #mourning cloak butterfly #nymphalis antiopa #butterflies #insects #bird of paradise #strelitzia #van nuys #video

[arterseesabug]

Sunning

#butterfly #insect #insects #mourning cloak butterfly

[onenicebugperday]

@ivanaskye submitted: this Decomposed Leaf let me get very close for pictures, due to being a Decomposed Leaf that is Gross and therefore has no need to fly away, being notably Not Yummy

(front range colorado)

Wow! What a gross dead leaf that I don't want to eat! Definitely not a beautiful mourning cloak butterfly that would probably be delicious. Did you know? Mourning cloak butterflies can make loud clicking noises to startle predators! Not that that has anything to do with this leaf

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #butterfly #mourning cloak #camouflage