#junonia coenia

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common buckeye butterfly (junonia coenia) | borboletasoestesc on ig

[arthropodopolis]

Butterfly: Common Buckeye, Junonia coenia

Flowers: some sort of sedum maybe??

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Buckeye Butterfly - Junonia coenia by Arlene Schag

[silverbugsworld]

since cottagecore is trending, take some pictures of my bug necklace :)

[elizastein]

Butterfly studies 🦋 Still deciding whether to turn them into prints

[michael-massa-micon]

Buckeye Butterfly - April 2020 You would expect that a butterfly called a Buckeye might be found in Ohio, but it is a common one found in northern Florida and southern Georgia. It is named for the large round markings on its wings which resemble the eyes of a deer, thus a Buckeye. It was resting on the mesh of our screen tent when I captured this image. MWM

[entomologize]

Fun fact: common buckeye butterflies (Junonia coenia) can be selectively bred to be blue fairly easily!

It turns out the only thing needed to go from brown to blue is a slightly thicker lamina, which is a flat layer at the bottom of the wing scale:

The lamina's iridescence is caused by the same phenomena as soap bubbles: thin-film interference. When light hits the transparent film of the lamina, it reflects off both the top and bottom of the layer.

Depending on the thickness and refractive properties of the material, the two reflected light waves can be in sync (image below) or cancel each other out. At the perfect thickness, the blue waves of light are enhanced and the butterfly becomes iridescent!

Because the difference in thickness needed to cause iridescence is so slight, it took less than a year to shift a population from just a few blue scales to full-on fabulous blue.

Photos & figures by Rachel Thayer, Nipam Patel, and Edith Smith.

[herpsandbirds]

Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia), family Nymphalidae, Houston, TX, USA

photograph by Paxon Kale CC

[bugkeeping]

Common Buckeye Junonia coenia

[no27-autonation-honda]

Every Current Formula 1 Driver But I Decided They Were All Bugs

No Thoughts, Head Empty, Only Insects I Enjoyed From My Single Entomology Class Several Years Ago. Sorry to folks from outside the states. Most of these are like. my local critters.

Max Verstappen - Appalachian Jewelwing, Calopteryx angustipennis I have no reasoning behind this one. He just gives me the vibes of a damselfly kinda man.

Sergio Pérez - Synoeca Cyanea, a species of warrior wasp, or just the Synoeca genus again, literally no justification besides he's on the dark blue team and I just really like these wasps. Please read the Synoeca wikipedia page. they are SO cool.

Lewis Hamilton - Violet Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa violacea fashionable! cool lookin bee!

George Russell - Blue Hawker, Aeshna cyanea

Charles Leclerc - Cattle Killer/Cow Killer, Dasymutilla occidentalis (letting my south midwestern hick jump OUT here. most folks call em velvet ants)

Carlos Sainz - Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta

Lando Norris - Walker's Cicada, Megatibicen pronotalis this is NOT meant to be a drag I actually love these freakishly loud animals but he just gives bright green cicada energy.

Oscar Piastri - Green Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa aerata cop out? yeah. good bee and something that feels correct? yes.

Fernando Alonso - Mourning Cloak, Nymphalis antiopa i love these fuckin bugs. absolute freaks of nature. they live for like a full year and they're always wandering around and getting up to something. plus they're very distinguished.

Lance Stroll - Common Buckeye, Junonia coenia I'm not even gonna elaborate on this one.

Valtteri Bottas - Eastern Cicada Hawk, Sphecius speciosus I just think they're neat!

Zhou Guanyu - Ebony Jewelwing, Calopteryx maculata blatant favoritism here. The ebony jewelwing is perhaps my all time favorite bug from home :) (its also v stylish)

Esteban Ocon - Chinese Mantis, Tenodera sinensis a noble creature that frequently scares the life out of me when i find one outside my window. Why the fuck are you so long. I appreciate u anyway.

Pierre Gasly - European Field Cricket, Gryllus campestris he just *feels* a bit crickety. Idk what to tell u man.

Kevin Magnussen - Halloween Beetle (or in America, the Japanese Lady Bug), Harmonia axyridis the most determined little bastard in the animal kingdom. They WILL get into your apartment through that microscopic sliver in the window.

Nico Hulkenberg - Green June Beetle, Cotinis nitida idk dude he just serves local scarab

Daniel Ricciardo - Black-And-Yellow Mud Dauber, Sceliphron caementarium im sure you are all noticing how much i love wasps by now. i was SO brave not making this a wasp only post. if ur american and a hick (hey girl(gn) hey) you'll know these guys From Constantly Being In Your Car's Inner Workings

Yuki Tsunoda - Bullet Ant, Paraponera clavata tiny but mighty!!!!! (short king solidarity)

Alex Albon - Great Black Wasp, Sphex pensylvanicus yet more blatant favoritism for my faves. Yes this post is so i can assign the williams boys and zg my fave types of local bugs. Anyway. this is one of the best wasps in the world. if u see her irl please stop for a moment to appreciate her. she's usually a docile species but she is very big and i love her. (good hunter too)

Logan Sargeant - Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis the ultimate late spring and all of summer insect of america. voted america's sweetheart of every local body of water eight millionth year in a row!!!! one of the best dragonflies in the country and i am serious!!! if u live in north america this summer, find a LAKE, a POND, A RIVER, perhaps even a CREEK!!!!!! A POOL WILL EVEN GET YOU! you'll find these folks. at current you might catch mating flight season!!! anyway. these are crazy good hunters and they're a beautiful little baby blue shade. anyway. logan and the rest of williams should go huntin for these when he gets back to florida. think it would fix em.

[fischotterkunst]

Common buckeye (Junonia coenia) in the butterfly house

5/28/23

[typhlonectes]

Common Buckeyes (Junonia coenia), family Nymphalidae, New Caney, Montgomery county, TX, USA, 11/6/23

photographs by Paxon Kale CC

[jungkutsudaisen]

- Junonia coenia

scientific name of Buckeye butterfly.

[zuzsenpai]

Zuzu's Bug-ventures: Jersey Shore Edition!

Halfway through my vacay at the Jersey Shore and figured I should post everyone I've seen so far. A good amount of these are common af flies, but I decided to include them anyway.

Restless bush cricket (Hapithus agitator). It sure is restless and an agitator. They scream all night and all morning, but are impossible to see. I'm actually surprised one jumped up onto the boardwalk for me

A type of orbweaver spider (Neoscona crucifera). Orbweavers are really common here, I've seen half a dozen of them already

A species of midge (Glyptotendipes barbipes).

Lesser house fly (Fannia canicularis). Just a fly

Housefly (Musca domestica). Just a fly, but apparently more important than the other guy

Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia). Had to zoom in pretty far to get this one, but it's really cool! I was like "damn, what if I found something rare!" Turns out they're common af. Still has spooky markings though!

Tan jumping spider (Platycryptus undatus). Doesn't get any cuter than this little friend blending into the boardwalk.

Starbellied orbweaver spider (acanthepeira stellata). Orbweaver: Spiky Edition!

Unsure of ID. Possibly Anaspis frontalis, though those might not not be in North America??? I'm stumped on this one

Black firefly (Lucidota atra). I don't think I've seen a single lit up firefly this summer :(

Common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata). Just a fly, but green. And common.

White-jawed jumping spider (Hentzia mitrata). Had to zoom in. Found this guy by inspecting some leaves.

Unsure of ID. Possibly a corn earworm moth (Helicoverpa zea). It was sitting perfectly on a car, then as I got out my phone it decided it gotta go fast.

Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Just a fly, but of the fruit-loving variety. Been finding them all over the kitchen, including dead in a drop of olive oil and dead inside a blender filled with dish soap. Can't control these mfers

Yellow dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria). It's getting old at this point. I've now seen every common fly in existence.

Fiery skipper butterfly (Hylephila phyleus). A skipper! Stood still! Just for me!!!!

Drain fly (clogmia albipunctata). As gross as they are and as much as they remind me of the dormitory showers at college, I've always liked the heart shape.

Unsure of ID, probably a wolf spider (Alopecosa kochi). Saw this completely by chance. I was checking out an empty web and happened to see this fellow chillin nearby. Wolf spiders don't make webs, so it was a fun surprise!

Unsure of ID. Someone on reddit suggested it's a spittlebug. It seemed much rounder than that, but it's the closest I've come to an ID. It was REALLY small-- found it on my shirt and zoomed in incredibly close

Unsure of ID, possibly a leafcutter bee (Family- Megachilidae).

So that's it for now! I'm here until next Tuesday, so we'll see if anything cool (that isn't a fly) shows up. I've been chasing a huge yellow butterfly all over town, but it never seems to land.

[swede1952]

Out on a limb.

I don't remember taking this picture, but I must have, and recently. I think that this butterfly is a common buckeye (Junonia coenia), I don't have an app for insects but I try to ID them with google search. When I post a photo.

[quaraly]

Texas pollinators:

1. Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus

2. Variegated Fritillary, Euptoieta claudia

3. Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus

4. Common Buckeye, Junonia coenia

5. Snowberry Clearwing, Hemaris diffinis

6. Common Buckeye, Junonia coenia

7. Western honeybee, Apis mellifera

8. Zabulon skipper (Lon zabulon) or Fiery skipper (Hylephila phyleus)

All appreciating the large amount of crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum) we got this year!