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ID Me Please - Phyciodes tharos - male

ID Me Please - Phyciodes tharos - Male
Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky, USA
August 12, 2006
Size: 3.3 cm wingspan

Images of this individual: tag all
ID Me Please - Phyciodes tharos - male ID Me Please - Phyciodes tharos - male

Moved to frass
Moved to frass

 
It's not ever my intention to
It's not ever my intention to post up a duplicate of something I've had IDed before. In cases where that has happened, there was something different enough (size, color, etc.) to make me question my own ID. That being said, I suppose even I should have been able to make the ID on this one. Sorry!

 
The deeper I get into this, the deeper I get into it.
When I started, I was very casual about ID. Result: Some way-off-base stuff, like a bee fly being named for a syrphid. We certainly need experts, and many butterflies - duskywings for instance - need to be in hand to be correctly identified. You have nothing to apologize for, John.

 
Thanks for your kind words Ro
Thanks for your kind words Ron. I just want it known that my intentions are to be a "good citizen" of the BG community. Believe it or not, there are some species that I trust myself to ID now. I don't know why, but my favorite moth species has become the little unassuming Beggar! I have lots of pictures of those that I've taken subsequent to the one I initially had IDed here. If I accidentally do post something that I have posted before, it is strictly accidental and just by my own plain ignorance--and definitely not to spam the experts here.

 
Out of curiosity, why?
Just wondering, since I've posted a lot of butterfly photos and intend to post a lot more. (One per month to represent my state for each month I see a particular species, as suggested by Lynette.)

In this particular case, we have only two pages on this insect, which has a variable pattern. Some of the photos are technically worse - including one of mine - and at least one is of a very battered specimen. Further, this post is one of very few with two views of the same animal.

Finally, knowing why something was frassed might help us all improve our postings.

(Written later: I started looking through Frass and probably picked the one instance Tom didn't say why an image was frassed. I'm guessing we had too many in this case. Right? Also, is my take on a butterfly a month correct?)

 
Maybe John Young can decide
since he has submitted the other images of tharos from Kentucky. John, can you choose which of your Kentucky crescent images you would like to have in the guide and which you would want to move to Frass? We agree that these are lovely images.
As far as a butterfly per month, we can't answer. John VanDyk would have to say what his vision for BugGuide is. Troy often talked about multiple images to provide geographical and temporal data for a species. Mike Quinn approximated the millions of images that would need to be stored to accomplish this! How many images can BugGuide easily handle? What is the goal of BugGuide? Now that's a deep philosophical question!

 
Good info, good solution
And as always, new questions. This is a great site! Maybe there's a way to provide temporal data as text rather than images. Perhaps there's a way to build this into the Data graph. Just musing...

Pearl Cresent
Phyciodes tharos.

Looks like a Crescent, perhaps Pearl
But I'm not an expert and don't have a book covering your area. Check out the guide; I'm sure you'll find much more there.

 
Should be Pearl
I don't know of any other crescents in that area.

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