vanessa atalanta

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta: Nymphalidae) Wingspan 4.4-6.4 cm (1.75 -2.50 in). Perched on Bastard Cabbage (Rapistrum rugosum: Brassicaceae) Mother Neff State Park, northwest of Temple in Coryell County, Texas, USA. Cedar elm-Ash Juniper-Texas Oak dominated Limestone hills above the Leon...

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta: Nymphalidae) Wingspan 4.4-6.4 cm (1.75 -2.50 in). It is always amazing at how conspicuous these butterflies are when their wings are open and yet even being a few feet away when they close their wings they just disappear. Salado Creek, Salado, Bell County, Texas...

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta subsp. rubria: Nymphalidae) Wingspan 4.5-5.7 cm (1.8-2.2 in). Photographed along the Rio Grande Nature Trail, Rio Grande Village, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA. Marsh edge along the Rio Grande at ca. 571 m (1,872 ft) elevation.

...on Ragwort

Not the most photographed view of a Red Admiral, can see why

Due to the unusually warm autumn, there are still active butterflies - like this Vanessa atalanta, showing its excellent camouflage on an Elm-tree bark. Comparing its underwing coloring with summer "edition" one can notice absence of blue and presence of new (lichen-like) green as well...

After five or six days with a miserable weather, we had three relative nice days (starting with Friday 6th). During this three days I saw a relative big number of insect species (more than ten), but only one butterfly species.

This was taken with my Tamron lens set at 300mm, when you are taking birds photos you dont have much time to change to a smaller lens.

Taken in the back garden with my camera phone, a Red Admiral on a Buddleja. The quality of the photo isn't great, but I grabbed what I could get at to take a picture!

Some brught colours can be seen on Admiral's underwing when not complet folded - see in the middle.

Several Admirals were visiting nearby grapevines and plums for few days.