Robert Gilson

Avid #butterflier and #birder, seeker of adventure, and maker of #kayaks. #birds #wildlife #moths #butterflies #kayak #art

[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

Join us April 20-27 2022 for this unique butterfly tour.

https://t.co/kXJ96ZgeEG

#faunaventures #butterflytours

[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

Blomfild’s Beauty
Smyrna blomfildia (Fabricius, 1781)
Emerald Valley, Lake Yojoa, Honduras
13 January 2021

[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

Join us on our next Honduras adventure, https://t.co/Z5HW8a70f5
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[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

Dione juno (Juno Longwing)
Emerald Valley, Lake Yojoa, Honduras
7 January, 2021
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[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

Just a plain ol’ Zebra Heliconian enjoying some mist flower power! 🦋 🦋 🦋
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[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

Fun fact, the Harvester (Feniseca tarquinius) is the only North American butterfly with a carnivorous caterpillar (they eat aphids!). In my neck of the woods they feed primarily on the Wooly Beech Aphid.
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[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

How about a pair of Mallow Scrub-hairstreaks for Twofer Tuesday
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[Marcus Gray, CWB® @GrayFeist]

#FF @FaunaVentureRob #FaunaVentures

Giant Swallowtail photo by me at our farm in Missouri. #bflies #leps #butterflies #butterflying #nature #science #travel

[RSC @TruthSpeak88]

@FaunaVentureRob @SustainableMon3 Oh, pretty!

- Me, admiring the intricate markings on the zebra swallowtail.

- Also me, Googling the growing requirements of pawpaw and the nearest nursery that carries them.

[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

We will be out today in one of our local Pawpaw patches looking for these beautiful swallowtails!
Protographium marcellus (Cramer 1777), Zebra Swallowtail
Chesterfield County, South Carolina
28 March 2020
#faunaventures #butterfly #butterflyphotography #butterflylove #lepidoptera

[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

Happy Friday Everyone!

Here's a Malachite (Siproeta stelenes biplagiata) to help launch you into the weekend!
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[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

@AndyBugGuy @CrawliesWithCri Me too! How can you not stop and take notice!

[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

I'm definitely ready for spring and some more of these fluttering flowers, how about you? 🦋🦋🦋
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[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

Happy Skipper Sunday!
This beautiful little skipper was a fixture on our Honduras trip and one of the two species in the neotropical genus.

Zenis jebus hemizona (Purple-stained Skipper)
Emerald Valley, Honduras
12 January, 2021
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[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

The genus Hypanartia (Nymphalidae) includes 14 species, all of which occur in the Neotropics
Hypanartia lethe is the most common and widespread species in the genus, found from Mexico to Brazil.

Hypanartia lethe (Orange Mapwing)
Honduras
7 January, 2021
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[Robert Gilson @FaunaVentureRob]

For Skipper Sunday, I thought I'd share this incredible spreading skipper that we found on our January tour to Honduras. We should have our dates set for the 2022 festival soon, so stay tuned!

Achlyodes busirus heros (Giant Sicklewing)
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[Association for Tropical Lepidoptera @TropLepATL]

New ATL paper by Nakahara et al.: Immature stages of Magneuptychia harpyia (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
https://t.co/2BfVcEolZw

[Association for Tropical Lepidoptera @TropLepATL]

New ATL paper by Willmott et al.: The common, the rare, and the lost: Descriptions of twelve new species and three new subspecies of equatorial Ithomiini
https://t.co/WlAYQgPzl2

[Association for Tropical Lepidoptera @TropLepATL]

A new ATL paper by Hall: A new species of Calospila (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Nymphidiini)
https://t.co/w5Vq3oYNVg

[Association for Tropical Lepidoptera @TropLepATL]

A new scientific note by Houlihan & Sourakov:
Capturing a green Morpho: In polarized low light in the tropical rainforest, Morpho wing iridescence may contribute to camouflage @peter_houlihan
https://t.co/yoyKmc50UN