Kidding aside, those are real names of butterflies. Just today I saw an eastern comma (Polygonia comma) in it’s summer form (black hind wings as opposed to orange hind wings for the winter form). I am secretly hoping that the early abundance of different butterflies has something to do with the native wildflowers in my yard. Or maybe they are just out earlier because of the warmer-than-usual weather. It is probably the latter since eastern commas in summer form don’t normally show up until May at the earliest. I am not the fastest photographer, and butterflies seem to know when I’m pushing the shutter on my camera and they have not been very cooperative. I got lucky today and got a decent shot of this eastern comma as it was fluttering near the surface. Eastern comma likes marshes and wet woodlands as its habitat.
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