Rayetta's Butterflies - Out and About, Again

Once I had Crumby tucked into his orgone box, I had to get out for awhile. That's because Crumby, asleep, began to recount his adventure at the dentist's. First I monitored the CB butterflies. But then, checking on Crumby once the monitoring was done, and discovering he was still stuck in dentist's visit mode, I decided to take a little trip over to the Gaines Creek woodlot, surmising the nymphs and satyrs might be cavorting in those parts. They weren't.

Yet the trip was not a total loss. Just the converse, the trip, was a win. Here's why!

This is a cloudywing, but not a northern cloudywing (Thorybes pylades). The white spots are too many and too bold. But what cloudywing is it? Well, I am not sure. But I am of the opinion that this one may be a confused cloudywing (Thorybes confusis. But it may be a southern cloudywing (Thorybes bathyllus). However, the southern cloudywing may not occur in these parts.

In any event, these three cloudywings may be an example of CB BDS methodology failure. It could be that the only way to safely identify them is to inspect their wee-wees. Don't wait up for me to do that.

Apparently, there is also some confusion regarding ecological separation among the southeastern Pylades. Not surpising if one must await wee-wee inspection for identification. Perhaps, the wee-wee inspectors are not so great on ecological notation and perhaps the ecological note takers eschew wee-wee inspections. Oh well!

The Julia heliconian (Dryas julia), on the other hand, is unmistakable. From top to bottom that's dun skipper, great purple hairstreak and Julia.

The great purple hairstreak may have provided the inspiration for some of the hairdos one sees occasionally, out shopping.