October 4, 2005 [LINK]
Butterfly (and spider!) photos
There is a new photo gallery page: Butterflies, spiders, & insects. Most of the photos on it were taken at or near Augusta Springs Wetland Area on Sunday, but some of them are older photos. Among the new photos, I really like the Marbled Orb Weaver, a colorful spider I had first photographed last year, and was recently identified for me by Dr. Art Evans, a friendly and enthusiastic research associate with the Smithsonian Institution who spoke at the Augusta Bird Club meeting last month. The butterfly species in this montage are, clockwise from top left: Red-spotted Purple (misnamed, if you ask me), Orange Sulphur, Monarch, and Cabbage White. The caterpillars from the latter species were devouring one of the plants on our back porch, so I removed them, and now that I know what they would have grown into, I feel bad.