If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)



 5/1/16 On a butterfly bush outside our front portico, La Cresta, Murrieta,
SW Riverside County, CA

5/1/16
4/22/16 On our herb garden gate

 4/24/17 Two Mourning Cloak caterpillars had pupated on the eaves 
of the roof over our garage, and here's one of them emerging from its chrysalis. 

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Mourning Cloak

SPECIES: Nymphalis antiopa

FAMILY: Nymphalidae (Brush-Footed Butterflies)

LIFE LIST DATE: 4/22/2016

LOCATION: On our property (my herb garden gate) in La Cresta, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

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2 comments:

  1. Optimistic ExistentialistApril 25, 2016 at 11:50 PM

    This is so beautiful :)

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  2. camissonia (Arleen)April 26, 2016 at 10:29 PM

    This beauty flutters then glides in flight and is a familiar and welcome harbinger of Spring.

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