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My aim is to attract people to natural subjects
through my art, and to share interesting information
about both the creatures and the host plants that sustain
them.
Each of these originals is a new
watercolor done on 16 x 20 inch arches paper. Below
these images are examples of the information provided
on the labels of all my works.
BLUE-EYED SAILOR (Dynamine dyonis)
BLUE-EYED SAILOR (Dynamine dyonis) A small butterfly
1 5/8 to 1 7/8 of an inch wingspan and with distinct
markings.
The sexes are very different above; male is golden-green
and
the female banded brown and white. It is a vagrant from
the
Tropics to south Texas and straying further north. The
food plant
of the caterpillar is Noseburns (Tragia). It is reported
flying from
May to November.
CHECKERED SETWING (Dythemis fugax)
CHECKERED
SETWING (Dythemis fugax) These dragonflies are
common in the south and central USA. It is around 1.8
inches in length
and has distinctive very pale green spots on its abdomen.
The face is
olivaceous in young males and females and bright red
in males. They
inhabit ponds, lakes, streams and canyons, perching
with both pairs of
wings depressed downward. wingspan of two inches, this
dragonfly perches on shoreline vegetation. The female
lacks the white patches. Males are territorial and perform
vertical loops with competing males. They inhabit ponds,
lakes and
sluggish backwaters, occasionally bogs and alkaline
wetlands. They
can be found throughout the USA.This is a small to medium
dragonfly 1.0 to 1.7 inches in length. During maturation
the abdomen and dorsal area turns primrose blue, about
nine days for males, slower in females. Outer half of
each wing can be tinted brown. Females have interrupted
yellow stripes on abdomen. Found in most still waters
and commonly found throughout. Found in mid-June to
September in the north USA and Ontario, Canada. They
perch with lowered wings on erect stems. Much territorial
action flying under opponent and forcing out of area
of water. Has been seen migrating in small numbers.
ROSEATE SKIMMER (Orthemis ferruginea)
ROSEATE SKIMMER
(Orthemis ferruginea) A King Skimmer, it
is medium-large at two inches. The pink form male is
found in the
southern USA. A red form male is found in the Florida
Keys. The
female and juvenile male are brownish with a median
white stripe.
They are seen all year in lakes, ponds, ditches, including
temporary
waters.
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