PO Box 9021, Wilmington, DE 19809, USA
E-mail: tours@focusonnature.com
Phone: Toll-free: 888-721-3555
or 302/529-1876
PO Box 9021, Wilmington, DE
19809, USA
E-mail: tours@focusonnature.com
Phone: Toll-free: 888-721-3555
or 302/529-1876
FOLLOWING
BELOW ARE LINKS TO LISTS WITH SOME PHOTOGRAPHS
OF BUTTERFLIES and MOTHS, AND DRAGONFLIES and DAMSELFLIES,
AT VARIOUS PLACES WHERE OVER THE YEARS
THERE HAVE BEEN FOCUS ON NATURE TOURS.
FROM THE LINKS BELOW OTHER LINKS CAN BE REACHED RELATING TO OTHER
NATURE
SUCH AS BIRDS, MAMMALS, REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS, MARINE-LIFE, AND PLANTS.
Links:
A Julia Heliconian butterfly
photographed in the Dominican Republic
(photo by Rob van Brussel)
Additional
links:
An
Alphabetical Listing of the Genera of Butterflies
with Photos in the FONT Website
An
Alphabetical Listing of the Genera of Moths
with Photos in the FONT Website
There is a link
here to the website for
BAMONA
Butterflies
and Moths of North America
www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
A Website
for Collecting and Sharing Data
about Lepidoptera
A Great
Resource
with Profiles of nearly 6,800 species of Butterflies and Moths
and Gallery Images of nearly 9,000 species of Butterflies and Moths
Here, in
the FONT website, in addition to a number of images
of butterflies and moths that people have kindly provided us
of North American (including Caribbean) species,
we also have in our galleries, through the links below,
species in Central America, South America, Europe, and Japan.
Going
through the link below to the home-page of our website,
one can see about Focus On Nature birding and nature tours,
both past and present:
In these
three photos,
the 3 stages in the life of the MONARCH.
First (above), the MONARCH CATERPILLAR
Second, the
MONARCH CHRYSALID
Third, the MONARCH BUTTERFLY
(1st & 2nd photos by Doris Potter; 3rd photo by Howard Eskin)
REGIONAL NORTH
AMERICAN LISTS OF
BUTTERFLIES, and some MOTHS,
DRAGONFLIES
and DAMSELFLIES
ALASKA
ARIZONA
A BORDERED PATCH photographed
during a FONT Tour in August 2010
(photo by Marie Gardner)
Arizona
Butterflies, Moths,
Grasshoppers
A List with some PHOTOS
Arizona
Dragonflies & Damselflies
A List with some PHOTOS
A WHITE-LINED SPHINX
MOTH
photographed during a FONT Tour in Arizona
(photo by Doris Potter)
CALIFORNIA
California Butterflies
including those during
the FONT West Coast Tours
EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
from eastern Canada to Florida
Butterflies of Eastern North
America
A List with some PHOTOS
Moths of Eastern North
America
A List with some PHOTOS
Dragonflies
& Damselflies
of Eastern North America
A List with some PHOTOS
Beetles, Bees,
& Bugs
of Eastern North America
A List with some PHOTOS
included in the last of these links
are some other insects,
especially pollinators,
as well as some spiders
and other little creatures
NORTH CAROLINA
Not a MONARCH, but a mimic of
it called the VICEROY.
Not even in the same genus as the Monarch:
Limenitis, not Danaus.
(upper Viceroy photo by Howard Eskin,
lower Viceroy photo by Doris Potter)
North Carolina Butterflies
A List with some PHOTOS
North
Carolina
Dragonflies & Damselflies
A List with some PHOTOS
TEXAS
Similar to
the MONARCH, depicted here
in both of the above photographs is the QUEEN.
Both are in the genus Danaus.
(both photos by Howard Eskin)
Texas
Butterflies
A List with some PHOTOS
with notes for those in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Dragonflies & Damselflies
A List with some PHOTOS
Two
photographs of PIPEVINE SWALLOWTAILS
during FONT Tours
(both photos by Doris Potter)
WASHINGTON
STATE
Washington
State Butterflies
including those during
the FONT West Coast Tours
A Photo Gallery of
Some North American Dragonflies
& Damselflies
The Dragonfly known as the
CALICO PENNANT,
Celithemis elisa.
(photo by Doris Potter)
In the Caribbean, the GULF
FRITILLARY
is known as the SILVER-SPOTTED FLAMBEAU
(photo by Howard Eskin)
Butterflies
& Moths
in the West Indies of the Caribbean
A List with some PHOTOS
In the list reached in the above link,
butterflies are noted during FONT Tours
on these Caribbean islands:
Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, the Caymans, Dominica,
Guadeloupe,
Hispaniola,
Jamaica, Montserrat,
Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, & Saint Vincent
and the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao
A Direct Link to:
Moths in the West Indies
of the Caribbean
(with 1,714 species)
Butterflies & Moths
and
Dragonflies & Damselflies
and Other Nature
of the Dominican Republic
A List with some
PHOTOS
Butterflies of Mexico
including the Yucatan Peninsula
and nearby Belize & Guatemala
Part #2: Brushfoots,
Satyrs, & Skippers
A list with some PHOTOS
The RUDDY
DAGGERWING
has been observed "puddling"
during FONT tours in Costa Rica.
Central American Butterflies & some Moths,
A List in 6 Parts, with some PHOTOS
(over 3,550 species)
Central American Butterflies, Part #1,
Papilionidae: Swallowtails
Central American Butterflies, Part #2,
Pieridae: Whites, Yellows, Sulphurs, Marbles
Central American Butterflies, Part #4,
Nymphalidae: Brushfoots
Central American Butterflies, Part #5,
Hesperiidae: Skippers
The URANIA
MOTH,
that can be confused with swallowtail butterflies,
as it is large, very colorful, tailed, diurnal, and flower-loving.
This photograph was taken during a FONT Tour in Costa Rica.
(photo by Rosemary Lloyd)
An IO MOTH found during a FONT
Tour in Belize.
The species ranges from Canada to Belize.
An Owl Butterfly,
Caligo brasiliensis.
a large South American butterfly
A large South American moth
photographed during a FONT tour in Southeast Brazil
South American Butterflies & some Moths
A List in 7 Parts,
with some PHOTOS
(about 4,800 species)
South American Butterflies, Part #1,
Papilionidae: Swallowtails
South American Butterflies, Part #2,
Pieridae: Whites, Yellows, Sulphurs
South American Butterflies, Part #4,
Nymphalidae: Brushfoots
(except Clearwings and
Satyrs)
South
America Butterflies, Part #5,
Nymphalidae: Clearwings, Satyrs
Also:
Moth-Butterflies
South American Butterflies, Part
#6,
Hesperlidae: Skippers
The SILVER KING
SHOEMAKER,
with another name, the TWO-SPOTTED PREPONA
(photo courtesy of Junji Nakamura
who sent us this picture of a
butterfly
that had been her mother's since the 1950s)
REGIONAL SOUTH AMERICAN
BUTTERFLY LISTS
ARGENTINA
and
BRAZIL,
and nearby PARAGUAY and
URUGUAY
An "EIGHTY-EIGHT"
BUTTERFLY,
Diaethria clymena,
photographed during a FONT Tour
in Brazil
Iguazu Falls,
besides being a sight itself to see,
it is one of the best places anywhere
for BUTTERFLIES
CHILE
Butterflies
& Moths of Chile
A list with some PHOTOS
Butterflies
& Moths of Europe
A List with some PHOTOS
A SMALL COPPER photographed
during
a FONT Fall Tour in Sweden
(photo by James Scheib)
Butterflies of the Canary Islands
A COMMON MAP,
Cyrestis
thyodamas mabella,
photographed in Okinawa Japan
(photo courtesy of Becky Wood)
Butterflies &
Moths of Japan
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