Orange Sulphur - Colias eurytheme - Not sure how we got ahold of this specimens. Perhaps bycatch, but the detail in the scales is always lovely in the leps. We usually obsess over the bees here at the lab, but...if you think about it, butterflies present another biodiverse, rich, group of insects that are dependent on a rich, biodiverse flora. They use the nectar (thieve it up really), don't provide much pollination for the plants (on average), need many of the same plants or even the grasses as food sources for the larvae and would also disappear without those plants or, if we continue lawnifying the earth we are think we "own" and pat ourselves on the back for keeping the parks, streets, and neighborhoods all tidy. Our sins are there to witness in acres of lawn.
