This pretty little American Lady butterfly loves the flowers in our yard. It has been hanging around for a while now and so much fun to watch. Beautiful butterfly, don’t you think?
Category Archives: Cape Cod Butterflies
Beautiful Halloween Pennant Dragonfly On Cape Cod!
We were hiking along the Nauset Marsh Trail when we saw this flicker of something shining on one of the tall reeds by the side of the trail. It looked like a dragonfly so we clicked away. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
It is a Halloween Pennant Dragonfly which is a brightly colored dragonfly that lives in the eastern United States. It gets its name from its orange colored wings which have dark brown bands marking them. It is often seen perched on tips of vegetation near the edges of a waterway, which is exactly where we saw it.
What an treat and a first for us! Have you ever seen a Halloween Pennant Dragonfly?
Beautiful Red Admiral Butterfly In Chatham On Cape Cod.
Beautiful Little Wood Satyr Butterfly On Cape Cod!
I hadn’t seen a Little Wood Satyr butterfly in a couple of years and this one was stunning. It landed on a leaf on the side of the Doane Rock Trail to Coast Guard Beach.
The Little Wood Satyr butterfly lives on woodland edges as well as salt marshes, which explains why we saw it there on that trail.
Gorgeous, isn’t it? I love its markings…
