Clip Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 9 hours ago, Avery said: Help! Common Ringlet I believe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 (edited) Common Ringlet (Colorado variation) Edited June 14 by Clip 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 ***Please note*** If you are hoping for help with an id on a bug or butterfly it is helpful to include location location location. Just like birds and maybe even more location can be helpful and even necessary. Also we do not seem to have a true bug expert here so ids may not be forth coming. Thank you that is all. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted June 14 Author Share Posted June 14 On 6/13/2021 at 5:51 AM, heme42 said: Blue-fronted dancer, male and female Saw a few of those yesterday in their local hangout here in northern N. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 On 6/5/2021 at 8:26 PM, Avery said: Common Sanddragon I am retracting this ID. Apparently this would be quite the find 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 anyone know what type of dragonfly? 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 1 hour ago, IKLland said: anyone know what type of dragonfly? That's a damselfly, not a dragonfly. (Those are the two main suborders in the order Odonata.) Damselflies are usually smaller and thinner and have heads like hammerhead sharks, and most of them hold their wings together when at rest. In the U.S. and Canada, most of the ones that hold their abdomens below their wings are dancers, genus Argia. I'm liking yours for a male Vivid Dancer, with the bright blue color, small black spots in addition to black rings on the abdomen, and unmarked light blue abdomen tip. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Red-banded Hairstreak 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Horse Lubber maybe? 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 15 hours ago, Clip said: Horse Lubber maybe? Are these weirdly adorable to anyone else? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 1 hour ago, Avery said: Are these weirdly adorable to anyone else? Yes. 🙂 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Brain Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 4 hours ago, Avery said: Are these weirdly adorable to anyone else? Yep. When I was a kid I used to see them and thought they were some kind of fancy, dressed-up grasshopper! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 White Peacock-I think this maybe the most abundant Butterfly in Florida. I certainly do see a lot of them. Which is okay by me as they are a good looking butterfly but you may need your binoculars to really appreciate them. As they flutter by they often just appear white. They aren't a tiny butterfly like the Blues more a medium sized like a Monarch. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Yellow Garden Spider 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Oblique-lined Tiger Beetle-Colorado 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLong Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Mor moff (Birdsnest and Epiphyas postvittana) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted June 16 Author Share Posted June 16 On 6/14/2021 at 9:04 PM, Avery said: I am retracting this ID. Apparently this would be quite the find Sure looked like it, though. Another reason it wouldn't be Common Sanddragon is that they have cream-colored cerci and your dragonfly has dark ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 8 hours ago, Jerry Friedman said: Sure looked like it, though. Another reason it wouldn't be Common Sanddragon is that they have cream-colored cerci and your dragonfly has dark ones. What’s a cerci? 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLong Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 5 minutes ago, Avery said: What’s a cerci? 😅 The poky bits at the end of the abdomen 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 One of the 1st bugs I photographed after moving to Florida. Mole Cricket 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Satyr Comma Butterfly 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Cow Path Tiger Beetle 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted June 17 Author Share Posted June 17 15 hours ago, MichaelLong said: The poky bits at the end of the abdomen Specifically the two outer poky bits, not ovipositors or stingers. And in male dragonflies and damselflies, the cerci are grabby bits. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLong Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 Eupteryx decemnotata 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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