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Fairly easy to see against a green leaf and backdrop, but it would all but disappear in other settings.
A rather close shot of a butterfly known as the autumn leaf (Doleschallia bisaltide) and also known as the leafwing.
With the wings folded up it really look like a dead leaf, but for me, this one, which I fould at the Haga Ocean Butterfly House, just wanted to sit with the wings open like this.
I have another shot of this butterfly, taken with a wide angle macro lens here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52158294196/ and a BTS shot showing how ridiculously close you need to get wit that lens here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52158533169/
I followed him around for a few minutes and got the open wing shot. Thrilled to discover it was a male with that brilliant solid color.
Male Goatweed Leafwing Butterfly (Anaea andria)
White Rock Lake, Dallas
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
This one from the Haga Ocean butterfly house was a hider. It's a silver-studded leafwing (Hypna clytemnestra) and it had chosen a leaf in the shadows and with itself being quite subdued in colours, it made for a rather dark scene.
Unfortunately, while I normally shoot with the camera on a tripod with a wired shutter, this one was too high up so it had to be handheld at 1/90s and some messing in Photoshop to end up like this.
A taste of Spring! Check out the butterflies puddling along the wildflower boardwalk at Pigeon Mountain on Monday. We saw dozens of Tiger swallowtails while driving up there (Pigeon Mtn is in the NW corner of Georgia). In this shot:
>> Tiger swallowtail
>> Spicebush swallowtail (foty)
>> Spring azure (foty)
>> duskywings - more than one species but most are Juvenal's
>> that tiny B&W moth is a Mournful thyrus (Thyris sepulchralis)
We also saw:
>> West Virginia whites - (foty)
>> Giant swallowtails (foty) - 2
>> Goatweed leafwing - only the 2nd I've ever seen and both were here!
>> Silver-spotted skippers (foty)
>> QM/Commas
>> eastern-tailed blues
>> Pearl crescents
>> no Falcate orangetips
Rare wildflowers were stunning & I'll post about dragonflies tomorrow.
Looking kind of cute in its little sleeping bag, this silver-studded leafwing (Hypna clytemnestra) was in the process of getting out of the chrysalis where it had completed its metamophosis from a caterpillar.
There was some heavy flailing to get out of it, but I managed to get a couple of sharp shots while it was resting between the attempts.
This is also a good photo if you want to see the way the butterfly's probocis (the rolled up tube they use for feeding) looks before it is "zipped up" as it is actually made up of two halves.
For a photo of this species once the wings have opened and hardened, please have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52619420885/
A butterfly photographed in the woods of Estância Vitória. I would aprecciate some help with the ID.
Pantanal - Mato Grosso - Brasil
A rather close shot of a butterfly known as the autumn leaf (Doleschallia bisaltide) and also known as the leafwing.
With the wings folded up it really look like a dead leaf, but for me, this one, which I fould at the Haga Ocean Butterfly House, just wanted to sit with the wings open like this.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52267324873/
I have another shot of this butterfly, taken with a wide angle macro lens here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52158294196/ and a BTS shot showing how ridiculously close you need to get wit that lens here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52158533169/
I finally had one stay in place long enough to get a couple of shots. Always before they were too fast for me. I got this photo first but really wanted an open wing shot because they are gorgeous inside.
Male Goatweed Leafwing Butterfly (Anaea andria)
White Rock Lake, Dallas
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
Photo taken around Surucua Reserve, Misiones, Argentina
2020/02/03
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The Silver-studded Leafwing Butterfly, also called the Marbled or Jazzy Leafwing, is one of several butterflies that camouflage themselves by closing their wings and mimicking a dead leaf.
Seen in Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World.
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This is the first shot I post which is taken using my new Laowa 15mm f/4 Macro lens. As the "15mm" part implies this is a wide angle macro lens and I'm hoping it will offer some new views compared to normal macro lenses.
For a BTS shot of how insanely close you need to get to the subject, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52158533169/ - This is the resulting shot of that framing! Looking at the lens in that shot, I can tell that this shot was taken at f/11 and 0.4:1 magnification.
The subject here is an autumn leaf (Doleschallia bisaltide), also known as the leafwing. With the wings folded up it really look like a dead leaf, but for me, it just wanted to sit with the wings open like this.
An Autumn Leaf Butterfly (Doleschallia bisaltide), aka Leafwing, at a feeder in the Butterfly and Orchid Pavilion of the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Tucson, Arizona
Photo taken at Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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2024/01/16
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Photo taken at Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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2024/01/16
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This large, beautifully marked Orion Cecropian, was perched on a stone along a gravel road.
For information on this species also known as the Stinky Leafwing:
www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Amazon%20-%20Historis%20odi...
October 24, 2015. near Banos, Tungurahua, Ecuador.
Here is another butterfly with wings that glow, even when in the shadow. It was hiding in the undergrowth out of direct light but the wings still had this amazing colouration.
I'm having a bit of a problem identifying the exact species, but at the moment I'm thinking it is a shaded-blue leafwing (Prepona laertes).
Marshall's Pen / Jamaica
I took this butterfly image at Marshall's Pen near the front yard of our guide and leader, Ann Sutton, where our small group spent 2 nights. I have sent this image to Ann to see if her butterfly friend can ID it from the image above.
I received a reply from Ann and she says that this butterfly is called the Orion Butterfly or Stinky Leafwing. Historis odius.
For those interested in learning more about this butterfly from Jamaica, you may check out the following information: www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Amazon%20-%20Historis%20odi...
Doleschallia bisaltide, the autumn leaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia. In Australia it is also known as the leafwing.
The larvae are black, with two rows of dorsal white spots. Head with a pair of branched spines; rest of the segments with a dorsal and a lateral row of blue branched spines on each side. They feed on Artocarpus, Pseuderanthemum, Calycanthus, Ruellia, Girardina, Strobilanthus and Graptophyllum. The pupae are yellowish with numerous black spots; constricted in the middle; head produced into two points.
There are several subspecies under Doleschallia bisaltide:
Doleschallia bisaltide andamanensis Fruhstorfer, 1899
This subspecies closely resembles the Indian form, but differs in the oblique yellow band on the upperside of the forewing, which is broader and extends from the middle of the costal margin uninterruptedly to interspace 4, though it is preapically constricted. On the upperside of the hindwing there is an inner as well as an outer conspicuous subterminal narrow-black band. On the underside, this subspecies is as variable as the typical form, but the ground colour in many specimens (presumably wet-season broods) is of a richer, almost metallic green, with the basal snow-white spots defined with black lines; the ocelli in interspaces 2 and 5 seem also to be more clearly defined than in the Indian form. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in malabarica.
My first and only Florida Leafwing. They are similar to the Goatweed Leafwing. I remember this moment many years ago. I took a few shots of it while battling a hoard of mosquitos in the Southern Everglades. In a flash it was gone and I think I hurried back to the car.
Who's studying who here? This butterfly was resting on one of the leaves of our fig tree and seemed to be looking straight into the lens. It is called a goatweed leafwing, a rather unfortunate name (in my opinion) for such a beautiful orange colored butterfly.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in July 2021