RHH's photos with the keyword: clodius parnassian

This is a butterfly we see rather frequently in the North Cascades. This example was photographed at Lake Elizabeth and the flowers it is feeding from are of the Sticky Asphodel. The inset photo shows the same butterfly and the red-orange spots on the underside of the hind-wings.

Last week Saturday we went on a hike with the Washington Native Orchid Society, looking for a very rare native orchid that was reported to grow near Lake Elizabeth, a small mountain lake south of Skykomish, Washington. We did not find the orchid but we did find this beautiful butterfly whose common name and scientific name are almost exactly the same. The butterfly is a Clodius Parnassian or Parnassius clodius. The story of our hike can be found here along with more pictures: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2010/08/lake-elizab...

Photographed last summer on the Lake Elizabeth trail in the North Cascades: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/search/label/lake%2... .