Reader’s wildlife photos

Today is Sunday, which means that we have a batch of butterfly photos from John Avise.  John’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.

Butterflies in North America, Part 17 

This week continues my many-part series on butterflies that I’ve photographed in North America.  I’m continuing to go down my list of species in alphabetical order by common name.  We’re getting near the end of the alphabet, so this is the penultimate post of my photographic tour of our continent’s Lepidopterans.

Tiny Checkerspot (Dymasia dymas):

Tropical Checkered Skipper (Burnsius oileus), male upperwing:

Tropical Checkered Skipper, female upperwing:

Umber Skipper (Poanes melane), upperwing:

Umber Skipper, underwing:

Viceroy (Basilarchis archippus):

Viceroy, underwing:

Wandering Skipper (Panoquina errans), upperwing:

Wandering Skipper, underwing:

West Coast Lady (Vanessa annabella):

West Coast Lady, underwing:

West Coast Lady, larva;