Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: wings folded

September is the month that the butterfly room at the Calgary Zoo winds down. Photographed this beautiful butterfly on September 12th - love it when they land on something where there is no cluttered background : ) Can't help but smile when I see their tiny, "soccer-ball" eyes. As always, I think I have the correct ID, but would really appreciate any confirmation or correction - thanks. Many thanks again to bayucca for the correct ID, Tiger-striped Longwing / Heliconius ismenius telchinia! I appreciate your help so much! I know I will embarrass myself by making the same mistake again.

Taken on August 20th in the forest at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park. A very grainy image - didn't realize how bad it was until I just uploaded to Flickr, ha. I still remember how thrilled I was when I saw my very first Police Car Moth - and since then have seen so many. I have just been trying to find out on the Internet why some of these Moths appear to be brown and white, not black and white. Male/female? Age? Light? "This is a fairly large moth with a wingspan of up to 50 mm. The wings are jet black with large white patches between the black scaled veins. As well, there are two orange patches of hairs on either side of the thorax, right behind the head. It is this colour combination, that of an old style police car, that gives it its name. Larvae are hairy and black with yellow and blue markings. The Police Car Moth is found throughout the province in or near forested areas. Adults fly throughout July and early August." From www.royalalbertamuseum.ca . Posting really early this morning, as I have a day of botanizing. I was glued to my TV set till the early hours of the morning, watching the progress of Hurricane Irene and hoping against hope that it will somehow veer off to the right. My thoughts are with all those who have been, and will be, affected by this powerful act of nature.

This moth was resting on a lovely bright orange wall of a restaurant that we stopped at in Vulcan (south east of Calgary), after our long birding day to the Majorville Medicine Wheel. Haven't identified it - not sure if it can be identified with its wings closed! Not very spectacular, but I loved it against the orange. Another dull day today, but thankfully it has stopped raining and snowing.