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Today was the first time I've seen butterflies in the garden for many weeks and it decided to be windy!
Uncropped, focus stacked from 2 pics. Think this one got jealous of the Holly blue and let me do some closeups. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/152478552/ for a crop from this shot.
see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/152481637/ for a 3-D version
Small cabbage white butterfly. Focus stacked using zerene. Found this perched on a daffodil trumpet immobilised by the cold
A butterfly taking off at the excellent Butterfly and Insect Centre on the island of Sentosa off Singapore.
Attributes of Atalopedes campestris
Family: Skippers (Hesperiidae)
Subfamily: Grass Skippers (Hesperiinae)
Identification: Upperside of male is yellow-orange with a wide brown border and a large squarish black stigma. Female upperside varies from yellow-brown to very dark brown, but always has a square transparent white spot at the end of the forewing cell. Underside of female hindwing is brown with nearly square cream or white spots.
Life history: Males perch on or near the ground during most of the day to wait for receptive females. Females lay single eggs on dry grass blades in the afternoon. Caterpillars feed on leaves and live at the base of grasses in shelters of rolled or tied leaves.
Flight: Three broods from May-November in the north; four to five broods from March-December in the Deep South.
Wing span: 1 1/4 - 1 5/8 inches (3.2 - 4.2 cm).
Caterpillar hosts: Grasses including Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon), crabgrass (Digitaria), St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum), and goosegrass (Eleusine).
Adult food: Nectar from many flowers including swamp and common milkweeds, buttonbush, dogbane, peppermint, red clover, tickseed sunflower, thistles, New York ironweed, marigold, and asters.
Habitat: Disturbed, open areas such as roadsides, landfills, pastures, meadows, fencerows, yards, parks, and lawns.
Range: Southern United States from Virginia west to California; south through Mexico and Central America to Brazil. Strays and colonizes north to central North Dakota, southern Michigan, Manitoba, and northern Pennsylvania.
Conservation: Not usually required.
Papillon Idea leuconoe. Il fait partie de la même famille que les monarques : les nymphalidés.
Volière à papillons du domaine de Maizerets, visite en août 2013.
Not the best photographs technically (was shooting quickly and didnt have much time to adjust focus and the like!) just like the colours in these
A butterfly sucking down some banana goodness in the butterfly garden in Chattanooga's Tennessee Aquarium
Took the opportunity with these specimens www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/4973599328/ to take some 10X shots of the butterfly's wings. Focus stacked with zerene stacker
:) We just had a great time chasing these buties....
Bannerghatta Butterfly Park.
All are taken with Nikon D200 + 80-200mm f2.8 lens + Canon 500D Macro filter.
Hope you like it!! You will find some great shots of the same cuties at my friend Srini's stream too
www.flickr.com/photos/gsrini/ ...[ may be he is busy getting them reday !!]