Orange Butterfly Weed Blossoms with Foraging Ant
by Peter Ogden
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Orange Butterfly Weed Blossoms with Foraging Ant
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
This is a copy of Orange Butterfly Weed Blossoms with Foraging Ant, 2017, by Peter Gumaer Ogden, 1957-, American. Digital photograph close up of bright orange Butterfly Weed blossoms [ asclepias tuberosa ], with a peekaboo ant seeking nectar. This flower is a member of the Milkweed family and provides leaf food for the caterpillars of the Monarch butterfly. This photograph was taken at Ithaca, New York.
Asclepias tuberosa, the butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar.
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October 8th, 2019
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