I was hiking the Pu’u O’o Trail, off Saddle Road, when I saw this Blackburn’s Blue Butterfly (Udara blackburni). This butterfly is endemic and is also known as the Koa Butterfly since the Koa tree is its main host plant.
Posted for Bushboy’s Last on the Card. See more responses here.
The Hornworm Tachinid Fly is considered a beneficial insect because it lays its eggs on caterpillars, which can decimate many varieties of plants. However, that also means it’s an enemy of Monarch Butterflies, which I don’t approve of, because it will do the same to their caterpillars.
I spotted this Black Witch Moth resting on the underside of a large leaf. I like this photo for the clean line of the front of the wings and those big eyes.
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 237. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 234. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
A Passion Vine Butterfly flying toward Yellow Lantana.
I spotted this moth on the side of my car and liked how it looked there.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Ten.’ See more responses here. January of 2016 was the first full month for this blog, so I thought I’d post a few photos that ran back then.
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