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This is the orange winter form of the species. The butterfly emerges from hibernation in early spring and may occasionally be spotted on a warm winter day. It is uncommon to see this butterfly species on flowers as pictured here on Japanese Andromeda (Pieris japonica).
Question Mark (Polygonia interrogationis)
Went for a drive to check out the status of several parks and came across 5 specie of butterflies of which one was this beautiful "Question Mark".
This is a "Question Mark Butterfly" It may be my first
Polygonia interrogationis, the question mark, is a North American nymphalid butterfly. It lives in wooded areas, city parks, generally in areas with a combination of trees and open space. The color and textured appearance of the underside of its wings combine to provide camouflage that resembles a dead leaf. The adult butterfly has a wingspan of 4.5–7.6 cm (1.8–3.0 in). Its flight period is from May to September. "The silver mark on the underside of the hindwing is broken into two parts, a curved line and a dot, creating a ?-shaped mark that gives the species its common name.
Polygonia interrogationis, the question mark, is a North American nymphalid butterfly.
It lives in wooded areas, city parks, generally in areas with a combination of trees and open space. The color and textured appearance of the underside of its wings combine to provide camouflage that resembles a dead leaf. The adult butterfly has a wingspan of 4.5–7.6 cm (1.8–3.0 in).
Its flight period is from May to September. "The silver mark on the underside of the hindwing is broken into two parts, a curved line and a dot, creating a ?-shaped mark that gives the species its common name."
As an adult butterfly, the question mark seeks out rotting fruit, tree sap, dung, or carrion as food sources. Only when these are unavailable do question marks visit flowers for nectar. This dietary adaptation is especially beneficial to the late spring / overwintering / early spring brood when nectar sources may be limited.
Los Angeles Natural History Museum. Butterfly Pavilion. Los Angeles. California.
Easy to identify this butterfly with that big white question mark on the side of the wing. Found it in my back yard.
Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis)
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The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, hosts a number of flowering plants. The late winter months are a time when the gardeners with volunteer teams prepare the gardens for spring by cutting back dead foliage and pulling the plethora of weeds that have popped up. I take my camera and seek out photographs. Sometimes I prepare a vision of what I want to photograph, but most of the time it is a surprise. The weekly changes in The Wildflower Center can be profound. Such was the case when I was informed by volunteer photographer extraordinaire Bill Boyd of the butterflies in this Mexican plum, Prunus mexicana, in full bloom. The butterflies feeding in this picture are a Question Mark, Polygonia interrogationis, in the foreground and a Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta, in the left background.
The question 'will I EVER see a Question Mark caterpillar?' was answered today with a resounding 'YES', as Chaney found three and I found a fourth one! They were in different stages and quite hyper! Ironically, as we started the day's hike, she showed me shots of her first Question Mark caterpillar encounter in Tennessee last week and I was thrilled for her...little did we dream we'd soon find four!
I recently purchased an orange bird feeder to attract Baltimore Orioles. Well, today a Question Mark butterfly was out in the rain enjoying an orange. At least something is using the feeder.
The Question Mark, while never overly common was more numerous in 2018 than in any year prior to. Mainly toward the end of the season, which was a pleasant surprise for this very photogenic woodland butterfly.
ISO400, aperture f/8, exposure .001 seconds (1/800) focal length 300mm
A 10mm caterpillar of Polygonia interrogationis, the Question Mark, a North American nymphalid butterfly. It lives in wooded areas, city parks, generally in areas with a combination of trees and open space.
This is the largest of the Polygonia (Comma) species from North America, multi-brooded with the larvae feeding on Nettle, Hop and Elm. Adults hibernate.
Larvae of the Question Mark butterfly, like all lepdiopteran larvae, mature through a series of stages called instars. Near the end of each instar, the larva undergoes a process called apolysis, in which the cuticle, a tough outer layer made of a mixture of chitin and specialized proteins, is released from the softer epidermis beneath, and the epidermis begins to form a new cuticle beneath. At the end of each instar, the larva moults the old cuticle, and the new cuticle expands, before rapidly hardening and developing pigment. Development of butterfly wing patterns begins by the last larval instar.
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Photographed in the community gardens in Shelby Farms Park.
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Question mark butterflies are fairly easy to photograph. Sometimes they even find a pretty background to show off those colors.
Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis)
Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve, Garland
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Question Mark - Polygonia interrogationis
Sipping some fermenting sap from a wounded willow oak, Quercus phellos, in a park. I really had to contort myself to get the camera into position.
The question mark butterfly caterpillars (Polygonia interrogationis) that I rescued from a volunteer elm sapling about to get obliterated are getting big!
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Thank you to Ulrich and Anita, below, who identified this as Polygonia interrogationis, commonly called the question mark butterfly.
Last weekend, Chaney and I were thrilled to still find more Question Mark caterpillars in the Upper Delta!
Question-mark butterfly, Polygonia interrogationis, Onion Creek Park, Austin. Question-mark butterfly, Polygonia interrogationis, Onion Creek Park, Austin. Very pretty woodland butterfly that gets its name from a marking on a lower wing surface that to very imaginative people resembles a question mark.