young butterflies

 Suddenly there are Commas and Mourning cloaks around again.
I assume these are newly emerged butterflies, that will soon over winter and sleep over till next spring

green comma

August 7 2015

in my yard.

So Oct 4 2015, one Mourning cloak came out again.

And March 31,2016 both were out, half a dozen of them around the next few days.

looking a little tattered but having made it it through winter.

is it the hoary comma?

Arctic Blue

Agriades gladon

In the alpine on our very own only true Yukon aster, Aster alpines
Dragon mountain, July 10 2015

Arctic skipper

Carterocephalus palaemon
June 12 2015
in the garden here

Anicia Checkerspot

May 29, 2015
Mendenhall meadows
Euphydryas anicia

Arctic

possibly a Chrycus Arctic

Oeneis chryxus

 first two photos two Arctics in the yard.

Later that day a different Arctic in the forest. is it just a different Chrycus Arctic or is it a Jutta Arctic

May 29, 2015

Hoary Elfin

On the second lowest shorelin of Ancient Lake Champagne, cloes to mendenhall subdivision
May 11, 2015

Hoary Elfin
Callophrys polia
food plant ; kinnikinnick

Mourning Cloak

 Mourning Cloak

Nymphalis antiopa

On the road here, April 20, 2015

2 Mourning cloaks mating, they did so for a long time, i watched them for an hour, i left before they did, most of the time they were standing totally still, by the way they braced their feet you could see they were alive. At one pointed the left one moved his/her foot and a few second later moved her/his wings slightly another few seconds it opened it's wings and left them open for a few minutes. 

I have looked out for the first Mourning Cloak of the season for a long time.

1998 - April 16

1999 - April 16

2000 - April 21

2005 - April 22

2009 - April 25

2010 - April 16

2011 - April 23

2015 - April 20

2022 - April 28

2023 -April 22 

Another Comma

I suspect it is a green comma
The road here,
April 19 2015

Comma

A gray or hoary comma, maybe
Sept 13, 2014
Arch mnt.
And another one here in the yard on September 15, 2014