Hazelton Bog native orchids

[em_tee_w]

The black swallowtail butterflies are actually females of the familiar eastern tiger swallowtail (typical yellow & black). The females can be either black or yellow. The males are always yellow. The yellow females have large amounts of blue in the wings, the males have very little blue.

 

[cnycharles]

I think your little moss is in fact the lycopod species known as northern bog club moss, Lycopodiella inundata.

club moss! thank you. I don't remember all of the names of the other things we check out on our trips; they aren't orchids, after all

thank you mtw for the butterfly i.d.; interesting that they can be two colors

 

[Dido]

Nice pics as usual like the hybrids, would love to see them in nature one day.

 

[Ozpaph]

Thanks Charles!

 

[Clark]

a beautiful natural hybrid with just a shade of white on the fringes of the lip

Wallhanger.


Sweet honey hole!