A Tawny Emperor!

Bronze Duke (Euthalia nara shania), family Nymphalidae, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Other subspecies of this butterfly have a bronzier coloration, thus the name.

photograph by Antonio Giudici

A freshly emerged Gulf Fritillary.

The Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly (Dione vanillae) is a bright orange butterfly in the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. I raised this particular specimen, and photographed it in Northern Florida on its host plant.

Nexus Trivia

A/N: to commemorate the final chapter of nexus' main storyline, i wanted to string together some trivia relating to the story/its creation process!

Nexus index.

When planning out this story, I wanted to draw from Greek mythology because I felt some of the motifs/themes would mesh well. Some of the references are more evident than others. These references include:

The planet Eris' name, owing to the goddess of discord/strife.

Ania, Reader's mother, is the personification of ache and anguish.

Chrysus, the spirit of gold.

Caicias, god of the northeast wind.

The quadrant Reader lives in, Thelx, is a shortened version of Thelxinoë. This name is attributed both to a siren and one of the four Titan muses. Charming minds was her area of expertise.

The name of Reader's business, the LOTUS-EATER, is a reference to (surprise) the lotus-eaters mentioned in Homer's Odyssey. An island where people pass their days leisurely in fantasy felt fitting for the Synalink business.

As for Reader/N darling, her motifs draw from the goddess of the soul, Psyche. There's also hints of Persephone in there because well. Blade and his connection to death/his obsession that disturbed Reader's mother parallels Hades and Demeter.

The inspiration for Reader's last name, Phaeales, is a shortened version of Nymphaeales, an order of flowering plants. Lotus' fall under this category. Coincidentally, the name for the largest butterfly family is Nymphalidae. Reader and Psyche are both associated with butterflies/butterfly wings. These shared prefixes went on to form the basis for the humanoid long-life species found on Eris, Nymphalians.

Since there was so much butterfly stuff fluttering about, I was like hey, why not commit to the bit. So some of the areas in Eris are named after flower parts. There's Perianth, the outer part of a flower, and the nectary, which is where, unsurprisingly, nectar is formed.

Nectar guides, the railroad system on Eris, references the special markings on flowers by the same name. Nectar guides are those lil lines that guide pollinators to their pollen and nectar.

Okay enough etymology for now. The one thing I kept from my first outline is Nexus' ending, I changed just about everything else. The ending felt like such a gut punch that I couldn't just change it into a one-shot, it wouldn't hit the same.

There was going to be more philosophy but I spared everyone that. Originally, I associated Blade with determinism, Reader with rational-egoism, Nona with nihility, and Lear with humanism. There's still some traces of this but I toned it down a bit 😭

I didn't spare everyone from Freud though, which might be worse tbh. Reader's character was roughly built around his concept of the ego, Nona, the id, and Lear, the superego.

Common mapwing

Cyrestis thyodamas, the common map, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836. It is found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. [ Wikipedia ]

📷 Ramesh Kumar

Черно-рыжая многоцветница — дневная бабочка из семейства Нимфалиды.

The black-and-red multicolor is a diurnal butterfly from the Nymphalidae family.

Common Buckeyes (Junonia coenia), family Nymphalidae, New Caney, Montgomery county, TX, USA, 11/6/23

photographs by Paxon Kale CC

Scientific Name: Asterocampa celtis Common Name(s): Hackberry emperor Family: Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterfly) Life Stage(s): Adult Location: Plano, Texas Season(s): Summer

Today’s anime insects of the day is: This assortment from Assassination Classroom

Order: Lepidoptera (butterfly) and Coleoptera (beetles) Lucanidae (middle beetle)

Family: Nymphalidae (butterfly) and Scarabaeidae (beetles)

Photography :  ©skondal

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Just before, I reblog one of past post about #chinese court dressings #forgiveness용서 #Hong Gil Dong background music, then there're colors chinese RED and golden yellow in picture and that Korean music feelings to make I suddenly remembered that you once took photos of two red flowers that were exactly Chinese red, and the other one pic of the butterfly with mutilated and injured wings golden yellow… .. . "they're calling me" lol I guess I'm really lunatic. 🙄😆 ha! very sick I know. 🤣 anyway, let me crazy later I can be doing my leather jobs peaceful. Thanks~*

金黃豹蝶意悠悠

殘缺哀愁不曾有

好比紅花掛燈籠

綠葉相襯愛相守

─ (七絕) 殘缺的愛你可有? ‧ 仲茵 poem: Do you have incomplete love? by Chu Lan

📌 Brenthis ino 燦豹蛺蝶，是蛺蝶科裡的一個物種，在歐洲很常見，但沒有出沒於從斯堪地納維亞北部至不列顛群島等地。The lesser marbled fritillary, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The lesser marbled fritillary is present in Spain, France, Italy, central and northern Europe, Siberia, temperate Asia, northern China and Japan. It overwinters in the form of caterpillar. The larvae feed on meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris), stone bramble (Rubus saxatilis), raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Aruncus species, Spiraea species and salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).

▪︎ a. 法國萬壽菊 （萬壽菊孔雀草混合）Tagetes linnaeus (Tagetes patula 'Linnaeus')

▪︎ c. 盾葉天竺葵 Pelargonium 'Roi des Balcons Imperial' , allow your cats away from this one flower, as It is slightly toxic if cats chew the flower. ☝ get it?! 🙏 Peace~*

Mexican Fritillary - Euptoieta hegesia

I'm absolutely overjoyed to share these beautiful Butterfly pictures! Not only is the insect in question a real stunner, but these images also represent the first close-ups of the ornate and elegant Fritillary Butterflies (Tribe Argynnini) on this blog. In general and from my own experience, Fritillaries are incredibly quick to flee if they sense danger approaching! They only ever seem to land when they investigate flowers, but otherwise keep their distance. In fact, the genus "Euptoieta" name originates from a Greek word meaning 'easily scared'. Prior to this, I've only been able to share one image of my own photography from High Park, and even then it was taken from far away and merely included as a comparison photo to Fritillary pictures shared with me by a dear friend on her yearlong Asia trip (who was available to get much closer than I did). With these pictures from a very dear friend enjoying a Mexico vacation (for which I'm very thankful for), the beauty and detail of these royal and gilded Butterflies can be observed gloriously. The sole exception here being the legs which are concealed by the wings. Just keep in mind that as a Brush-Footed Butterfly (family Nymphalidae)* it only has 4 legs in use for walking and landing.

As this Butterfly's common name suggests, its range includes Mexico where it can be seen year-round due to the favorably warm weather. It can also apparently be found in the states of Texas and Arizona (and occasionally Florida) in the latter half of the year and has made its way to other tropical areas such as Cuba. When you see a Fritillary Butterfly flying around, no matter where you find it you'll recognize every future Fritillary as soon as you see one. These gorgeous Butterflies are easily recognized by their marvelous wings, the tops of which are laced with orange scales and accented with dark striped patterns and spots; the undersides tend to have large white or silvery spots. The Mexican Fritillary is a slight exception to this rule as the underside of its wings (not seen here) have a mostly mottled appearance similar to autumn leaves with a small section of vibrant orange featuring white patches on the forewing. Moreover, this Butterfly has a bare, pure orange area on the distal section of its hindwings (where the wings meet the body). Keep an eye out for this bare section of bright orange scales: it is key for identifying this specie if you spot a Fritillary in the south-US/Mexico area. The similar looking Variegated Fritillary (E. claudia) has a completed marking pattern across its hindwings and tends to be a more golden orange rather than the saturated orange of E. hegesia. The two species are much easier to tell apart in adulthood than when enjoying leaves as Caterpillars!

*Note: In the classification hierarchy of taxonomy, remember that Family is ordered before Tribe (which itself comes before Genus). As such, all Fritillaries are Brush-Footed. Their wings are among the most magnificent of all Brush-Footed Butterflies, wouldn't you say? Although...the Monarch is still the most iconic of all.

Pictures were taken on February 11, 2024 in Mexico with a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra.

An Asian Lady Beetle and Gulf Fritillary larvae!

Cramer's 88 Butterfly (Diaethria clymena), family Nymphalidae, Panama

Some individuals have more of an 89 marking.

photograph by Ken Myers🇵🇦 (@panama_photos)

Forgot about these pictures of a Common Buckeye (family Nymphalidae) caterpillar that I found one day. One of the coolest lil monsters I’ve ever seen :]

For bug tax I have one tiny spider (the thing its on is hand sized)...

...a live butterfly...

...and a dead one

If you know what species any of these are I'd love to know!

OH BOY BUG TAX

I’m in undergrad still so take everything I say with a grain of salt

1. Definitely a jumping spider so it’s in the family Salticidae

2. Family Nymphalidae (feels like the most common butterfly family), but cross referencing BugGuide.net and the iNaturalist app could place it into the Junonia genus aka “buckeyes” butterflies from their false eyes pattern. The suggested species is Junonia grisea but I cannot 100% tell you for sure.

^example photo I’ve cross referenced

3. That is a very dead swallowtail butterfly (family Papilionidae)! Trying to ID them any lower is a tough time for me due to their similarities.

Cithaerias pireta, the blushing phantom, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico south to South America.