Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Didja Ever See
a butterfly proboscis? I thought I didn't have any good butterfly pictures to post, but then I looked more closely at some I took last week. I think this shows the proboscis of a female Eastern Tailed-Blue butterfly. I first thought I was looking at part of the flower - one of the stamens or the pistil - but on closer inspection both of those are very light colored. So I'm sticking with the story that I have photographed a proboscis, unless somebody proves me wrong. For some really cool pictures of proboscises (probosci?), see here and here.
Oh, and here's a different picture of the same Eastern Tailed-Blue. It was just luck that I snapped this when she had her wings open.
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