OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
|| Not sure what species, but here is a small one taking a break
|| on a bindweed flower in my yard:
||
|| http://tinypic.com/211syuw.jpg

Om, is that butterfly more orange than it appears to be in the picture?

Does it look anything like this?
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1893

I saw some burnt orange butterflys in a private garden in Lakeway on
Wednesday. I thought maybe they were snouts but I can't find any pictures
of snouts that are the same pattern. A distinct feature I noticed is the
upperside of the hindwings of the butterflies seemed mostly orange, whereas
the underside of the hindwings had prominent black veins.

I thought them too small to be Queen butterflys. However, the above site
indicates the Queen butterfly wingspan can range from 2 5/8 to 3 7/8
inches. So Queen butterflies CAN be smaller than I thought. I've not found
any other pictures that looked more similar than the Queen butterflies in
the above reference. Even the patterning of the white dots is similar to the
butterflys I saw.

j jhnsn