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I spotted this Great Spangled Fritillary while walking down the driveway this afternoon. Any one else have any interesting sightings/photos?

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These little butterflies are all over the place right now. They scatter in little clouds as I walk across the yard. I believe that the first photo is a Least Skipper. The other two are likely either a Northern or Pearl Crescent, but I can't be sure which:

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I don't have good luck finding butterflies. I may take my camera into the Butterfly museum at Niagara to get some close-ups... I don't want to get a feeder because I don't like whole the rotten fruit thing.

Brenda... you must either have a long zoom or really sneak up on those.
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If you have the space in your yard, you could plant one of the wildflower mixes that attracts butterflies. The nice thing about wildflowers is that they're low maintenance. I just let the "weeds" grow up around my office this year, and guests have asked if I planted all of those flowers!

I only have a built in zoom right now, until I can afford to upgrade. I just leaned over the railing of my office porch to take those and then I adjusted/cropped them. That's the wonderful thing about digital--I just take a ton of photos of any given subject and sort through them later.
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When I came out to shut down the office a few minutes ago, this butterfly was trying desperately to get out through a screen window (small brain--door was wide open). I rescued it, and it hung out on my finger long enough for me to add a photo to my collection:

Northern Pearly Eye
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I could only get one shot off before this one flew away:

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I'm sure that everyone has seen these, but they rarely stay still long enough to get a shot, to say nothing of trying to photograph a white butterfly in bright sunlight (with a lame camera). I've seen as many as a half a dozen of these spiraling across the yard like a tiny tornado. It just occurred to me that the "pod" in the upper left corner looks like the plant in "Little Shop of Horrors."

Cabbage White (female-males have one spot)
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I never see any of these
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