by Rich Leighton | Mar 18, 2020 | Butterflies, Insects, Interesting Nature Facts, Invertebrates, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
Most adult butterflies can’t bite or chew. They eat mainly liquids like nectar, sap, juices from fruits, and sometimes even fluids from carcasses. They have a long, tube-like tongue called a proboscis, which works like a straw to suck up liquid. When...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 13, 2020 | Butterflies, Insects, Interesting Nature Facts, Invertebrates, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
Butterflies taste with their feet and have a suction tube for a mouth. Their eyes are made of 6,000 lenses and can see ultraviolet light! MORE PHOTOS OF BUTTERFLIES MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting Nature Facts is a series about the flora, fauna and places...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 9, 2016 | Butterflies, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Oregon
Recently I was checking out some places in Central Oregon the Bend area and while having a chat with some random fellow hikers who in a truly wild coincidence had lived around the corner from me in Fort Myers, Florida, this beautiful little stella orangetip butterfly...
by Rich Leighton | Feb 14, 2016 | Butterflies, Gossamerwings, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
The gossamer-winged butterflies – sometimes called gossamer-wings – are in the family known as Lycaenidae, are a large group of butterflies found all over the world (over 5000 species), and they also happen to be some of the smallest of butterflies. Most...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 17, 2014 | Butterflies, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
One of the most maddening and frustrating things I can to do as a working nature photographer is hunt down a group of highly excitable tiny butterflies known collectively as gossamer-wings, and get them on camera. This delicate and very beautiful butterfly family...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 1, 2014 | Butterflies, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Swallowtails
Today I’m going to do a short and sweet post with a lot of photos highlighting three of the most beautiful swallowtail butterflies of the genus Papilio found deep in the hot, humid American Southeast during summertime. The three species are the eastern tiger...
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