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Category: butterflies

Building, singing, quarrelling

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Prospect Park, 8 July 2022

Posted on 9 July 2022Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, butterflies, photography, Prospect Park, wasps

Prospect Park, 7/20/2021

Eastern tiger swallowtail on California buckeye, Prospect Park

Mute swan cygnets, Prospect Park

Question marks, Prospect Park

Question mark, Prospect Park

The butterflies at the bottom are question marks, so called because when their wings are closed, it looks like there’s a semicolon written in Wite-out in the middle of the underside of their wings, which is how you write a question mark in ancient Greek.

Posted on 20 July 2021Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, butterflies, photography, Prospect Park

Doodletown, 5/25/2021

Red-eyed vireo, Doodletown, NY

Spicebush swallowtail, Doodletown, NY

Tuliptree, Doodletown, NY

Posted on 26 May 2021Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, butterflies, photography, trees, wildflowers

Kenoza Hall, 5/23–24/2021

White-breasted nuthatch, Kenoza Hall, Kenoza Lake, NY

Pearl crescent (female), Kenoza Hall, Kenoza Lake, NY

Common ringlet, Kenoza Hall, Kenoza Lake, NY

Yellow warbler, Kenoza Hall, Kenoza Lake, NY

Meadow fritillary, Kenoza Hall, Kenoza Lake, NY

Pearl crescent (male), Kenoza Hall, Kenoza Lake, NY

Posted on 25 May 202125 May 2021Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, butterflies, photography

New story drops today

New story drops today: n+1 is publishing “The Remainder” online. The story will appear in print in the magazine’s 38th issue, “Death Wish.”

Posted on 20 November 202021 November 2020Author Caleb CrainCategories apocalypticism, birds, butterflies, ends of the world, epidemiology, gay life, history of technology, items new in print, science fiction, short stories, Yasunari Kawabata

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