That's great! I love those buckeyes, those sulphurs and those io moths! Sherry

I didn't even see that second cat in the last picture, Mary, but now that I do, I can see a line on it - it may be a cloudless sulphur. My book Caterpillars in the Field and Garden shows a green sulphur with a yellow lateral stripe that is labeled a large orange sulphur, so maybe that's a characteristic of that type also? The picture of the yellow large orange sulphur in my book Florida's Fabulous Butterflies shows a yellow one that does indeed look like the one in your first picture, except it has a tannish colored line down the side, which I don't see on yours. I've looked at so many green and yellow sulphurs in four different books, that now I'm too confused to have a clue! Sherry

Nice pics! I concur with Sherry on the first three. The top two pictures are definitely an orange sulphur (the orange is a giveaway) female (the black margin with holes). The third is a classic Cloudless Sulphur -- lemon-yellow in flight, very large. I would have said "male" because the female usually has strong underside markings, but I defer to Sherry since the Cloudless actually live in her area. :) I was going to say that the fourth is a Clouded on the basis of the double hindwing silver spot, but I wasn't able to confirm this ID key poking around. According to this site, the Clouded has a forewing margin that sits behind the row of dots. Meanwhile, the Orange has a margin that runs over the dots -- similar to yours. When we do counts, anything with the least tint of orange color is labeled "Orange Sulphur", with "Clouded" reserved only for the pure yellow colored individuals. Jeff

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