Rayetta's Butterflies - Bait

My potent mixture of Dolmen Stout and brown sugar is apparently working, yet. The young buckeyes and a question mark all visited even today. Hmmm. I may have to make butterfly baiting a part of my very busy schedule, or delegate and closely monitor that task. That's it, Crumby can do it.

Check out the ventral surface hind-wing coloration on this young buckeye. I have never espied that color on any other young buckeye. I'd like to have a nice little jacket, or even a pretty little suit, of that precise color.

This young buckeye is (was) pumping its wings. That's why the photo is blurry, a limitation of point and shoot cameras. Hmmm. Do I need a suit that color, or a digital slr? Hmmm. Probably, I need the suit.

Crumby wanted me to mention that the beaver log, upon which the young buckeye is situated, is a Juniperus ashei or J. virginiana log of about 6" diameter. A beaver or beavers gnawed both ends of that particular log. Crumby was so impressed that a beaver, or beavers, would gnaw a Juniperus that he brought the log along home to the CB. We have incorporated this beaver log into several of our secret Druidic rituals.