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A male keeping watch against intruders.

A female sunbathing on a leg in the sun.

I saw several specimens of this species but I wasn’t able to get any good photos of them. I saw 7 on Saturday. Some were drinking nectar from sagebrush buttercups.

I caught this male specimen on July 25, 2003 on the edge of my friends’s neighbour’s driveway. It was perched on a Verbena bracteata {Bracted vervain.}

20’c mostly sunny breezy
This was one of 21 swallowtails seen congregating, and appeared to possibly be two tailed with the rest being tiger and pale?

Sex is male. It was one of the first species of hairstreaks that I seen in Olalla BC that year.

Here's a Female puddling In a Large Puddle Near Km2 just West of Olalla Creek Canyon Road Similkameen Valley, Olalla , British Columbia, Canada.

The next photo I captured it to show the dorsal view of inside the wings of this handsome male Christina Sulphur.

Cone scales thin, pale, and jagged. Pretty sure the cones came from the photographed tree. In the last photo, tallest tree in the centre

A Queen hibernating under a black cottonwood decaying branch.

A drone resting on my mom’s Prunus tormentors Nanking Cherry shrub leaf.

glorious sunny days are bringing out butterflies; small white, painted lady and red admiral

https://www.e-butterfly.org/ebapp/en/checklists/view/127623

South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area, above Osoyoos West Bench, BC, Canada

Oreas Comma

Butterfly

Winter form.

The third spot on the hind wing is very faint in this individual.

A male that was drinking nectar from Bull thistle.