I took some pictures of them this morning. I did some research and found that they are Red Admirals. They don't show up in this abundance for about 10 years. I'm not a big "butterfly guy" but I thought they were cool.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Red Admiral Butterflies
While out golfing Friday I noticed hundreds of these black butterflies with orange stripes and white spots on their wings. Then on Saturday morning I got up to find even more of them completely engulfing our Ash tree in the front yard. It was even hard to mow as I was getting bombarded by these little dudes and small birds chasing them around like fighter jets. It was amazing.
I took some pictures of them this morning. I did some research and found that they are Red Admirals. They don't show up in this abundance for about 10 years. I'm not a big "butterfly guy" but I thought they were cool.
I took some pictures of them this morning. I did some research and found that they are Red Admirals. They don't show up in this abundance for about 10 years. I'm not a big "butterfly guy" but I thought they were cool.
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You know how I know you're gay? You posted about butterflies.
Yeah, I knew that was coming. It was a risky post.
BTW - nice shots - I tried to get photos from our Basswood trees that were covered but they looked like the typical bird in the sky photo.
No way to get a group of 100 photo look good!
BTW - that is not an ash tree! It's a Basswood or Linden tree.
If your 1st two photos you can see little green thin leaves, this is the difference between ash and Basswood. Ash has no little thin leaves.
Both look the same I guess - never noticed.
That's funny because we were told we were getting a Linden Ash. I assumed that was a type of Ash. Is that incorrect?
It appears that our tree is a Greenspire or Little Leaf Linden, which is a form of American Basswood. Isn't the Interweb amazing?
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