Pale Beauties
ELEGANCE NOW FLIES AND BLOOMS in shades of white. During my meanderings so far this month, I’ve found pale beauty where plants and insects converge. Above, for example, a common (and non-native) Cabbage White butterfly (Pieris rapae) nectars on Joe-Pye Weed at a wetland in Peacham, Vermont. Below you’ll find other convergences of white and color and flight, including a moth, Campaea perlata, whose common name I’ve chosen for the title of this post.
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas), formerly known as American Copper, nectaring on Boneset in Morristown, Vermont, on 8Aug2016.
Silver-bordered Fritiallary (Boloria selene) nectaring on Boneset in Morristown, Vermont, on 8Aug2016.
A butterfly I’ll call Azure species (Celastrina sp.) until the taxonomy is resolved, in Peacham, Vermont, on 30Jul2016. (More on the taxonomy in a future blog post.)
An orchid that I believe is White Fringed Orchid from a bog in Lamoille County, Vermont.
A Pale Beauty (Campaea perlata) moth from Steuben, Maine, on 23Jun2016
