#red banded hairstreak butterfly

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Butterfly | Red-banded Hairstreak 🦋 #shorts #cute #butterfly #bytesizeambs #cutecritters

Cute little butterfly I saw back in early Fall 2023. It is called a Red-banded Hairstreak. These butterflies are known for their "second head" which is there to deter or confuse predators. Pretty neat!

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RED BANDED HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY

I like this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it is so pretty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@snickeringdragon submitted: hello :D saw this little freak a few days back and was wondering if youd have an idea on what it might be? apologies for the image quality it was having a great time on a leaf and i didnt wanna disturb it too much

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bonus butterflies i saw today (no need for id but im pretty sure the first is a red-banded hairstreak :])

Hello! Someone lost their mustache! Oh no. That lil freak (affectionate) looks to be a sycamore tussock moth. And yes you're right about the hairstreak!

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Calycopis cecrops on Solidago canadensis / Red-Banded Hairstreak on Canada Goldenrod at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

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Red Banded Hairstreak Butterfly Shaking its Bootie

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A Beautiful Red Banded Hairstreak Shows off to Attract Another

Hairstreak High Jinx This is actually a video that I took in 2022 and forgot about. Originally it was a little long and there were several places where it was very jittery. I spent a little time today working on it and feel pretty good about it now. It shows a little red banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) walking around rubbing its wings together. This is a little ritual that they do while…

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Five of my favourite flora and fauna photos I took in May 2024, five of my favourite landscape photos I took in May 2024 and month summary

The photos are of; Red Grouse at Lochindorb, Red Squirrel at Dell Woods, Marsh Fritillary at Magdalen Hill, Azure Damselfly and sorrel at Lakeside Country Park, views at Strathdearn and Cairn Gorm, sunset at home and views at Magdalen Hill and Pig Bush in the New Forest.

May was another epic, packed and brilliant wildlife watching and photo month for me. Beginning in the midst of our sensational Scotland adventure many of the bird highlights of the holiday were about to unfold in May's early days seeing Black Grouse, precious Dipper, wonderful Golden Eagle, exquisite summer plumage Slavonian Grebe and Ring Ouzel with stars of the trip first seen inside April on the trip and before that enjoyed again such as White-tailed Eagle, Osprey, smashing views of stunning summer plumage Black-throated Diver, Pink-footed Geese, Red Grouse, Common Sandpiper, Goldeneye, Redstart and Willow Warbler. It was very busy for birds when we returned home to Hampshire this month with Swifts at a few locations, Garganey, Reed Warbler, Whimbrel, Garden Warbler, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Roseate Tern and valuable chances to see Stone Curlew again on a guided walk added to my year list mixing migratory species I needed to see and stardust birds; another epitomising this the amazing times I saw Cuckoos this month in Hampshire a bird I heard so much throughout the Scotland trip it's always a privilege to see them and I had some breathtaking experiences with them. Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, Sedge Warbler, Great Crested Grebes, Moorhen including chicks seen well with Greylag and Canada Goose goslings enjoyed a lot on patch at Lakeside Country Park and Red Kite were other stars across the month in what was a fantastic month of birds.

May is one of my busiest months of the year as I've still got plenty of bird species to look for and the butterfly season really gets going. It was an incredible butterfly month for me with dynamic and colourful species seen including Large White, Dingy Skipper, Duke of Burgundy, Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Grizzled Skipper, Painted Lady, Small Heath, Brown Argus, Green Hairstreak, Marsh Fritillary, Small Blue, Common Blue, Adonis Blue, quite early Meadow Brown, Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Peacock, Orange Tip and Speckled Wood getting my butterfly year into a great place. It was a great moth month too with loads of species seen including The Streamer, Garden Carpet, Mint moth, Burnet Companion, Brown Silver-line, Common Heath, Common Carpet, Pale Prominent, Yellow Shells, Hook-streaked Grass-Veneer, elegant Mother Shiptons, Speckled Yellow, Silver Y and Five-spot Burnet seen.

It was a top dragonfly and damselfly month with some super species seen to get me started including Common Blue Damselfly, Azure Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Large Red Damselfly, Banded Demoiselle, Beautiful Demoiselle, Hairy Dragonfly and Broad-bodied Chaser and thrilling moments seeing my first ever Downy Emerald at Bentley Wood. It was a real awakening of beetles for me this month with Violet Oil beetle, Green Tiger beetle and Dor beetle seen in Scotland and at Bentley Wood for the green tiger and many Swollen-thighed beetles and Red-headed Cardinal beetles, Oedemera lurida, Cantharis rustica, Cryptocephalus aureolus, Common Malachite, Woodland Dor beetle, Black-striped Longhorn beetle and Garden Chafer enjoyed once home. It was a really good mammal month with Red Squirrel, Red Deer, Brown Hare (seen in Hampshire too) and Stoat seen in Scotland, Roe Deers seen nicely across the month, Fallow Deer and New Forest Pony foals and cattle at Lakeside charming seasonal sights.

It was a wonderful month of plants again with special flower species seen as they took over meadows and other areas including wood sorrel, coltsfoot, oxeye daisies, yellow rattle, buttercups, greater celandine, spurge, early purple orchid, common twayblade, white helloborine, common spotted orchid, burnt-tip orchids, speedwell, forget-me-not, yellow iris, eyebright, lousewort, wood avens, meadow crane's-bill, grass vetchling, foxgloves, crimson clover, red clover, white clover, black and spotted medick, comfrey, cuckooflower, tormentil, bugle, yellow pimpernel, silverweed cinquefoil, sainfoin, fox-and-cubs, mignonette, common rock-rose, hemlock water-dropwort and bird's-foot trefoil. I took in some mesmerising views and sky scenes this month. Have a good June all.

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An assorted assortment:

Fledgling Blue Jay... Fledgling Chipping Sparrow

(Orchard) Orb-Weaver Spider... Red-banded Hairstreak Butterfly

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Red-banded Hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops)

September 10, 2021

Southeastern Pennsylvania

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Red-banded Hairstreak Red River Gorge, KY 19 July 2021

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Red-banded hairstreak butterfly. 

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Red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops)

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Red-banded Hairstreak - Calycopis cecrops

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Little Butterflies Can Be Beautiful Too

Little Butterflies Can Be Beautiful, Too shows readers a gorgeous little red banded hairstreak butterfly. It discusses the various sizes and colors of our local butterflies and tell the story of this particular butterfly.

Distinctive Grace Butterflies can come in all shapes and sizes, and they all have their own types of beauty. The swallowtails are large and usually strikingly colorful, while most others are smaller and range from the all brown and black Horace’s duskywing to the brightly and multicolored red spotted purple. We also have a selection of much smaller butterflies like the hairstreaks. Not long ago,…

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Research grade species #1240: Red-banded hairstreak

About 5 minutes after I gloomily proclaimed that future generations will know no butterflies but the ubiquitous and invasive cabbage white, I encountered this tiny beauty. I was letting my environmental pessimism bring down an otherwise upbeat pollinator survey. We had wandered through a few different habitats inside the bounds of the zoo fences, and were looking at the insects visiting the blooms in the Organic Garden section. It was a bit overgrown, owing to a year of pandemic-related neglect followed by a general shifting of priorities by the very busy Horticulture department. The hairstreaks are small quick butterflies with wingspans of 3 or 4 centimeters, shining metallic blue or bronze on the backs of the wings. Underneath, the wings are lines with delicate markings (hairstreaks) ending with "tails" which, often accompanied by eyespots, are actually false fronts. The tails confuse predators into attacking the wrong end of the insects, buying critical milliseconds to escape. This species, Calycopis cecrops, also has the nominative red bands across the bottom of all four wings, which might help draw attention to the eyespots and false antennae.  The larvae are slug caterpillars with a hunger for a variety of mostly subtropical plants, from mango to sumac. The eggs are laid on fallen leaves around the host plant--another species that benefits from leaves being left in place, not blown or raked into bags. Bugguide lists the limit of the Red-banded Hairstreak's northeastern range as Connecticut, iNaturalist users have pushed that up into Massachusetts. In fact, with the exception of observations on Plum Island and out on the Cape, Boston is the northeastern-most habitat of this creature. And not to dip back into eco-gloom, but that range is bound to expand with anthropogenic climate change.