Butterflies

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Blue Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly



Great Spangled Fritillarry Butterfly On A Bull Thistle



Yellow Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly On Purple Asters


A Question Mark Butterfly with a Fishing Spider attempting to dine on it.

[TyroneFly]

Nice pics spinner1

[NewTyer 1]

Nice pictures. I was fishing some blueline last weekend and saw these spiders(I actually almost put my hand on one)they were on rocks just above the water line, flattened out and blended with the rock perfectly and could what seemed, walk on the water. He had a leg span of about 5" or more. Very scary

[FishnDave]

Great pics, Len!
I had not heard of a Blue Tiger Swallowtail. I did some searching and learned something new. There IS possibly a "dark form" of the Tiger Swallowtail. Probably what you have in your top picture. There is also a Spicebush Swallowtail that looks NEARLY identical to that. Tough call, but you are probably correct.

I think this butterfly is a Woodland Skipper:

[Uncle Jesse]

Do mantis not eat butterflies?

[FishnDave]

Do mantis not eat butterflies?

They definitely do. That butterfly was on an adjacent flower stem just out of reach of the mantis.

Here's one that got caught:

[Fishingfiend]

Beautiful pictures!!! Great work with that camera. Newtyer ... Huntsman Spiders, Fishing Spiders and Wolf Spiders all belong to the same family and look similar. All of them can suspend on the surface tension of the water but the Fishing Spider is the most adept at it. Also, the Fishing Spider can and will grab minnows that come to near it's perch when sitting just above the water like you saw. I love snakes, but I am interested in Spiders and I just happened to be reading about these spiders last week.