I don't know what it is either but you and your E-M5 surely do a nice
job. Which x-150mm lens is this again?
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/26/2012 8:33 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 4:01 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>> I was out wildflower hunting again today, and after being exhausted
>> from scrambling up 50-degree slopes I came to a rest at the base of a
>> 15-foot pouroff in a wash, where I came across this butterfly:
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/8221556207/in/photostream
>>
>> He put on quite a floor show, dancing around in the sunlight to make
>> it difficult to get a good, clear photo. Now I come to find that he doesn't
>> appear in any of my field guides, so I'm hoping someone will recognize the
>> species of this colourful fellow.
>
> I'm curious, too. Far from scrambling about difficult desert slopes, I was
> wandering the Coastal Maine Botanic Gardens
> in Boothbay Harbor with Carol, Bob & Joan, when we saw several of these.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2012/Maine/Coastal_Maine_Botanic_Garden&image=_9150911croof30.jpg>
>
> Some tiny variations, but sure looks like the same species to me. The body
> stripes aren't obvious in the best shot, but
> are very clear in another specimen at different angle/light in this slightly
> less clear shot.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2012/Maine/Coastal_Maine_Botanic_Garden&image=_9150884rot90croofm.jpg>
>
> It seems to me they had some pictures there as a guide, and something very
> like this was labeled as a moth. Didn't seem
> likely to me, but I'm far, far from expert. We meant to ask, but ...
>
> As I recall, we also saw them in other places in Mass and Maine.
>
> Did someone tell someone else that artichokes are thistles here recently?
> Here's a nice proof.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2012/Maine/Coastal_Maine_Botanic_Garden&image=_9150861oof50.jpg>
>
> Choke A Moose
>
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