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The Harvester is the only carnivorous butterfly in New Hampshire. The caterpillar feeds on wooly aphids that form clusters on alders.
Wentworth Location, NH
The holly blue butterfly in the previous shots had been remarkably calm about me taking photos, so when I'd finished, I stuck a finger under it's nose and much to my surprise it walked on and stayed there quite a while. It only flew off when I tried walking up the garden to show the wife.
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.
Spotted this on the wall of our passageway this morning. well - actually I spotted the large cabbage white that was on it!
Sadly one of the cats made a play for it and it flew away before I could get it. Bad Cous-Cous! Bad boy!
kepompong kupu-kupu barong
(giant butterfly cocoon)
the colorful background is the other cocoon plastics hanger color effect.
On the buddleia. I'm hopeless at butterflies and can't find our book - can anyone enlighten me as to what sort it is? I know it's a fairly common one.
Had an unexpected visitor in the garden the other day - a red admiral butterfly. Natural light/fill flash. Focus stacked using zerene
For some reason my Illinois Butterfly book just calls these Baltimores instead of Baltimore Checkerspots, which it seems the rest of the world calls them. Anyway, I stuck the camera in his/her face and used the flash to get this.
Common blue butterfly. A fairly rare visitor to the garden. Focus stacked using zerene.
See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/14762512461/ for a 3D version
Same butterfly as www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/137048315/
but this time taken with my normal macro rig.
This butterfly was flapping round my bedroom. I have no idea what it's doing awake at this time of year - it should have hibernated in October!
I managed to capture it with a torch and transfer it to a light tent to photograph it.
Strobist info: Canon 430EX @ 1/8th on one side, Metz 60 CT-4 @ 1/8th on the other.
Metz on sync lead, 430 on Ultraslave.
Canon EOS 30D with Canon EF50 f/2.5 macro.
LSPS Midweek Outing - Stratford Butterfly Farm
So, I'm taking a break from uploading to flickr for a while.
My own personal work has hit a bit of a wall and I am not shooting much that I am happy with. I did shoot a great couple of weddings and parties over the winter which you can see on my website (www.richardsmith-photography.co.uk).
I will start posting my type of photographs again at some point.
That being said, I went on a trip today to Stratford Butterfly Farm with some friends and shot some of the flutterbys which was a nice afternoon!