Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Aglais milberti

Photographed on 27 July 2012, when four of us spent the day botanizing (searching for and recording all species of plants found, plus birds, animals, insects, fungi) at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre, NW of Calgary, near Raven. This colourful butterfly happened to land on the tire of a friend's car in the parking lot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglais_milberti

This was one very friendly little butterfly! Talk about posing nicely for photos : ) Obviously it hadn't read the description of this species below, ha. Seen while we were botanizing the beautiful acreage belonging to Susan Wright (down south of Calgary, past Turner Valley). Wingspan: 34 to 52 mm. "A quick, active species that flits rapidly about its territory, often along a woodland road. It regularly alights on the ground or on a rock or tree with its wings spread flat. It feeds mostly on sap, rotting fruit, and animal dung, but is also seen nectaring on flowers." From www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/butterflies/species/Milbert'sTor...