These yellow butterflies used to be more common before the city government started removing natural flowers along the riverside and replacing them with transplanted greenhouse flowers:
While visiting the United States two years ago I came across another member of the ‘Yellows and Sulphurs’ group that isn’t quite so yellow but that didn’t stop me from chasing it partway down a trail to get a half-decent photo with my phone camera:
In documenting the organisms associated with crepe-myrtle, I found this Gold-dust Lichen. More subtle than whaichi’s collection of spectacular organisms…
adorable greater death’s head hawkmoth caterpillar the size of my phone! Monolepta bifasciata trying to act like an assorted candy ( Am I the only one who thinks this guy looks like a yellow candy? Anyone?)
Another lichen picture, a Candelariaceae 3-in-a-row. From left-to-right is:
Candelariella vitellina (usually grows on rocks but here it is on a tree which is not too unusual especially in urban areas)
Candelariella reflexa s.str. which I was very excited about finding the real deal of, rathe than the aff. xanthostigmoides stuff that constitutes the vast majority of what used to be called C. reflexa
Candelaria concolor in the smaller end of the size range, a species recently spreading quite a bit here in Denmark
Some of the standout ones for me have been robber flies, huge fields of goldenrods, american goldfinches (my favorite local bird!), an assortment of woodsorrel species, all equally adorable, and, among my favorites, the mysterious golden flies. Every time I spot one it feels like winning a borderline-microscopic trophy.
