This yellow flower stalk caught my eye, as did the roving dangly legged insect.
Holly With Yellow Flowers and an Insect
He wasn’t too impressed and moved on.
Holly With Yellow Flowers
There wasn’t much to the plant, the leaves you see here were all there were, about three or four feet (1 Meter) off the ground.
Holly With Yellow Flowers
I had not noticed these flowers before and don’t know if they are typical winter bloomers or if the relatively mild winter we are in has brought them out early.
It’s all in your perspective, and maybe influenced by your specimen. The wide variations in nature are amazing.
I had searched for “Brown Butterfly” to identify this new to me butterfly and even used that to name my post. I didn’t find any matches.
White Peacock Butterfly
It turns out it is identified using white as the primary color: the White Peacock Butterfly. If I had seen this second butterfly photographed later the same day first I might have searched differently. Or maybe not!
This beautiful brown butterfly was working the edge of the dike that passes between a pond and a marsh area. He seemed more interested in resting than feeding.
Brown Butterfly
I’ve searched through several online butterfly identification resources but haven’t come up with a match.
Edit: White Peacock Butterfly. I was searching for brown butterfly with white, and this is officially a white butterfly with brown. Thank you, Hans Wikström https://livifriluft.com/ .
Brown Butterfly
Donnelley Wildlife Management Area
November 13, 2020