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Borboleta-Emília (Leptotes cassius)Observador
caymannatureDescrição
Leptotes cassius - Cassius Blue Windermere St, April 22, 2024.
Butterflies of the Cayman Islands by R.R. Askew and P.A. van B. Stafford 2008, p.80.
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Phyciodes phaonObservador
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April 21, 2024 Uncle Sammy’s Pond, Mount Pleasant Rd, West Bay
Lippia nodiflora - Match Head, probably its larval food plant and Spilanthes urens - White Button
Butterflies of the Cayman Islands by R.R. Askew and P.A. van B.Stafford 2008, p.55.
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Borboleta-Emília (Leptotes cassius)Observador
caymannatureDescrição
Leptotes cassius - Cassius Blue on Spilanthes urens - White Button, Uncle Sammy’s Pond, West Bay, April 21, 2024.
Butterflies of the Cayman Islands by R.R. Askew and P.A. van B.Stafford 2008, p.80.
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Croton glabellusObservador
caymannatureDescrição
Croton glabellus has been misidentified as Croton lucidus.
A monoecious shrub, leaves usually long petiolate, glabrate or stellate pubescent.
Croton lucidus 1891 Collected from Lucea, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman, by Albert S. Hitchcock, who was collecting for the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.453
Colliers Wilderness reserve Dec.1, 2013.
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Croton glabellusObservador
caymannatureDescrição
Croton glabellus has been misidentified as Croton lucidus.
A monoecious shrub, leaves usually long petiolate, glabrate or stellate pubescent.
Croton lucidus 1891 Collected from Lucea, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman, by Albert S. Hitchcock, who was collecting for the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.453.
Blakes, East End, July 25, 2010
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Croton glabellusObservador
caymannatureDescrição
Croton glabellus has been misidentified as Croton lucidus.
A monoecious shrub, leaves usually long petiolate, glabrate or stellate pubescent.
Croton lucidus 1891 Collected from Lucea, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman, by Albert S. Hitchcock, who was collecting for the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.453.
Secret Garden. Jan.10, 2006.
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Croton glabellusObservador
caymannatureDescrição
Croton glabellus has been misidentified as Croton lucidus.
A monoecious shrub, leaves usually long petiolate, glabrate or stellate pubescent.
Croton lucidus 1891 Collected from Lucea, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman, by Albert S. Hitchcock, who was collecting for the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.453.
Secret Garden, July 31, 2005
What
Croton glabellusObservador
caymannatureDescrição
Croton glabellus has been misidentified as Croton lucidus.
A monoecious shrub, leaves usually long petiolate, glabrate or stellate pubescent.
Croton lucidus 1891 Collected from Lucea, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman, by Albert S. Hitchcock, who was collecting for the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.453.
Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, Woodland Trail, Feb.16, 2003.
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Croton glabellusObservador
caymannatureDescrição
Croton glabellus has been misidentified as Croton lucidus.
A monoecious shrub, leaves usually long petiolate, glabrate or stellate pubescent.
Croton lucidus 1891 Collected from Lucea, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman, by Albert S. Hitchcock, who was collecting for the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.453.
What
Croton glabellusObservador
caymannatureDescrição
Croton glabellus has been misidentified as Croton lucidus.
A monoecious shrub, leaves usually long petiolate, glabrate or stellate pubescent.
Croton lucidus 1891 Collected from Lucea, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman, by Albert S. Hitchcock, who was collecting for the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.453.
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Trichilia glabraObservador
caymannatureDescrição
Trichila glabra – Bastard Mahogany is the Cayman common name.
Small tree, leaves with mostly 3 pairs of leaflets and a terminal one. The leaves are similar to Red Birch – Bursera simaruba, which has a characteristic bronze-red bark.
Native range is S. Mexico to Central America and western Caribbean.
Flora of the Cayman Islands by George R. Proctor, 2012 p.495.
Middle Ground, Sept.6, 2022.
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Lymire albipennisObservador
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Lymire albipennis larva on Edible Fig - Ficus carica March 11, 2002. Fig leaf embroidery by the caterpillars,
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Lymire albipennisObservador
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Lymire albipennis caterpillars stripped the leaves of a Wild Fig tree - Ficus aurea at the Equestrian Centre. photos of larvae and pupae. Jan.30, 2005.
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Lymire albipennisObservador
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Lymire albipennis – newly emerged adult moth and pupa case April 23, 2009
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Ficus aureaObservador
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Wild Fig tree, Strangler Fig Tree – Ficus aurea, Cayman Islands largest native tree.
FLORA of the CAYMAN ISLANDS 2nd. Edition by George R. Proctor, Kew Publishing 2012. Page 240, Fig. 83, Pl.3.
South Church St. / Websters April 3, 2024.
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Ficus aureaObservador
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Wild Fig tree, Strangler Fig Tree – Ficus aurea, Cayman Islands largest native tree, stripped of its leaves by Lymire albipennis caterpillars.
FLORA of the CAYMAN ISLANDS 2nd. Edition by George R. Proctor, Kew Publishing 2012. Page 240, Fig. 83, Plate 13.
Tree in the foreground is Tabernaemontana laurifolia – Sling-shot tree, native to the Cayman Islands and Jamaica only.
FLORA of the CAYMAN ISLANDS 2nd. Edition by George R. Proctor, Kew Publishing 2012. Page 519, Plate 49.
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Lymire albipennisObservador
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Lymire albipennis larva eating Ficus aurea – Wild Fig tree leaves at Liguinea Circle, March 8, 2024. Ficus aurea is the largest native tree in the Cayman Islands. The little caterpillars can strip a huge tree,
Lymire albipennis larvae also feed on Ficus carica – Edible Fig – leaves.
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Cyclargus erembisObservador
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Cyclargus erembis on Lantana involucrata – Roundleaf Sage, Bitter Sage - Cayman common names, and near it’s larval food plant Guilandina bonduc = Caesalpinia bonduc – Cockspur, Grey Nickel, Nickas – Cayman common names.T his very prickly, sprawling shrub is most probably the ONLY larval food plant of the Cayman Islands Blue Butterfly – Cyclargus erembis (= Cyclargus ammon erembis)
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Strymon istapaObservador
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Strymon istapa - Dotted Hairstreak on Gomphrena vermicularis = Blutaparon vermiculare - Samphire, Silverhead, Uncle Sammy’s Pond, West Bay. March 29, 2024.
Butterflies of the Cayman Islands by R.R. Askew and P.A. van B.Stafford 2008, p.75.
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Borboleta-Emília (Leptotes cassius)Observador
caymannatureDescrição
Leptotes cassius - Cassius Blue on Phyla nodiflora - Match Head, Uncle Sammy’s Pond. West Bay. March 29, 2024.
Butterflies of the Cayman Islands by R.R. Askew and P.A. van B.Stafford 2008, p.80.
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Borboleta-Emília (Leptotes cassius)Observador
caymannatureDescrição
Leptotes cassius - Cassius Blue on Spilanthes urens - White Button, Uncle Sammy’s Pond, West Bay, March 29, 2024.
Butterflies of the Cayman Islands by R.R. Askew and P.A. van B.Stafford 2008, p.80.
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Borboleta-Emília (Leptotes cassius)Observador
caymannatureDescrição
Leptotes cassius – Cassius Blue butterfly, nectaring on Wild Indigo – Indigofera suffruticosa, Conch Point Road, West Bay, March 29, 2024.
Butterflies of the Cayman Islands by R.R. Askew and P.A. van B.Stafford 2008, p.80.