"One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature." ~ Henry Fox Talbot

I posted a photo of a chrysalis in the Photo Forum not too long ago. This is the beautiful creature that emerged just the other day, an Orange-Barred Sulphur. My wife Lisa said she heard a noise in the dinning room (where we were keeping it) and she walked in to find it fluttering around. She and the kids eventually got it back in it's little terrarium and I took a couple of photos of it at the kitchen table that night. It was quite happy to sit on my finger and pose while I fumbled about with my other hand trying to take some steady macro shots. We let it go in our garden the following morning. ----- Orange-Barred Sulphur (Phoebis philea) Wing span: 2.75 - 4 inches (7 - 10.2cm) Identification: Upperside of male bright yellow-orange; forewing has red-orange bar and hindwing has red-orange outer margin. The female, much larger than the male, has two forms, one off-white and the other yellow-orange. Both have upperside of forewing with solid black cell spot and a submarginal row of broken black smudges. Early Stages: Females lay eggs singly on leaves and flowers of host plants; caterpillars prefer to feed on the flowers. Caterpillar is yellow-green with black and yellow bands on the sides. It also has white-ringed reddish spots. Caterpillar Hosts: Cassias Adult Food: Many different flowers. Flight: Two-three flights in Florida, one in northern range from mid-late summer. Range: Lowland tropical America, Brazil, Florida and the keys, rare but seen in Northeast states. Extremely vagrant in Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Connecticut. Habitat: Open lowland sites such as forest edges, city gardens, parks, and road edges. Interesting Facts: Males of this species have a broad orange bar on the forewing, this gives rise to its common name. ----- Thank you for your studly comments on my last upload, Panoramus Stallinious.

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