RHH's photos with the keyword: phyciodes

This is the Field Crescent, Phyciodes campestris, a common small butterfly in our area. This one was photographed along the Hurricane Ridge road in Olympic National Park.

A Field Crescent, Phyciodes pulchella, photographed on the flowers of the Russian Knapweed, Centaurea repens. The photo was taken in eastern Washington along the Columbia River north of Chelan by my wife.

Though not immediately evident, there are two small butterflies on these Knapweed flowers, A Field Crescent, Phyciodes pulchella, and a California Hairstreak, Satyrium californica. The photo was taken by my wife in a natural area along the Columbia River, while I was looking for orchids, she spent her time more profitably (I didn't find anything) photographing butterflies and flowers. It was a sunny day and these two butterflies were everywhere. The flowers appear to be the Russian Knapweed, Centaurea repens, a very invasive and noxious non-native plant.

This is another version of a photo I already have posted. The photo was taken near Tete Jaune Cache in British Columbia where we were hunting for Lady's Slippers. Both the Hoverfly and the Butterfly were around the flower which I never identified and I managed to get several pictures with them both in focus. The Hoverfly is a Syrphus species which I have not been able to identify further and the butterfly is the Northern Crescent, Phyciodes cocyta.

In Explore July 3, 2010, #374. We were on some back roads near Tete Jaune Cache in British Columbia looking for Yellow Lady's Slippers. While searching the edge of the woods I came on this butterfly with the hoverfly buzzing around near the same flower. I snapped a bunch of pictures hoping to catch both of them in focus and was fortunate enough, when I could see them on the computer, to find that I had gotten both of them. After doing some searching, I came to the conclusion that this is the Pearly Crescent (Phyciodes tharos), but as Upupa4me suggests, the markings more resemble the Northern Crescent (Phyciodes cocyta). Fizgig has confirmed that this is a Northern Crescent. More photos and a diary of our trip thus far can be found at: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/07/british-col...

We were up on the Old Blewett Road in eastern Washington several times recently and both times it was warm and sunny and the butterflies were everywhere. We had gone to see the orchids and the butterflies were an unexpected bonus. We managed to catch both in this shot. The Tall White Bog Orchis, Platanthera dilata var. dilatata is extremely fragrant and that in combination with the white flowers would suggest that butterflies such as these are the principle pollinators. In this case the butterfly's tongue can be seen reaching into the flower. There are two other varieties of this orchid, variety leucostachys and variety albiflora, distinguished by the length of the spur. In these flowers the spur is about equal in length to the lip as can be seen in the photo. In the other varieties the spur is longer or shorter. This was published as a two page center spread in the December 2012 issue of Orchids, the magazine of the American Orchid Society, along with a brief article on field photography. The photo was chosen from the AOS's photo of the week gallery. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/08/old-blewett...

Photographed along the old Blewett Road on the eastern side of the mountains. The Field Crescent is Phyciodes campestris and the orchid is Platanthera dilatata var. dilatata. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/08/old-blewett...