Spring Butterflies and Moths
It's spring up here in Wisconsin - for the moment, anyway. It was 65 degrees for two days in a row, and the overwintering butterflies have come out here at the farm.
This is the first one I saw - sunning itself on a patch of snow - an Eastern Comma.
Polygonia comma
and the first moth - The Infant - a bright colored day-flying moth whose caterpillars eat birch.
Archiearis infans
The next day I found 3 Mourning Cloaks battling over a small woodland opening - it seemed like they were having a territorial dispute.
Nymphalis antiopa
Nymphalis antiopa
Marcie O'Connor
Buffalo County, Wisconsin