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Left one of my potted hibiscus plants outside this Summer and it seems to have attracted what I think are cabbage white or similar caterpillars.
(鳳蝶科)展翅 100 -120 mm，雄蝶一型，翅膀表面黑色，下翅具有藍灰色放射性條斑紋，翅腹面基部具紅色斑，下翅腹面靠近肛角處具橙紅色斑。雌蝶有3型，有尾型翅膀表面具白 、橙、黑色斑紋，有長斑和短斑2種，無尾型下翅表面有黑、白2色的條狀斑紋。本屬有21種之多，翅膀一般黑色具紅色、青色等鮮艷的斑紋，本種普遍分布於平地至低海拔山區，幼蟲以芸香科植物寄主，如食茱萸、雙面刺、賊仔樹及柑橘、柚、檸檬等，成蟲飛行緩慢，喜愛陽光，常見於公園、學校、人工生態園及路邊的野花上空飛行。
These were very prolific earlier in the year and we saw more than we've done for years. Then the rains came and butterflies have been at a premium. Hope you like this one. Taken while out walking along the River Dee in Cheshire, but equally common in the garden!
Be kind, this is my first bug photo ever. I don't have proper macro gear, just a "flower" setting on my little point-n-shooter.
I can't get close enough to see bugs without scaring them away. Butterfly wrangling for this shot was provided by lapettit.
Today's surprising visitor at backyard was so hungry in winter that it didn't mind to be my model at all.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacus_atlas
Female laying eggs.
Wingspan: 27 cm
www.flickr.com//photos/texturonline/sets/7215762716144733...
I was kinda pissed at myself for not being able to get motivated to go somewhere and take some pictures today, so I walked around the back yard looking for ANYTHING.