Red admiral butterfly feeding on valerian. Natural light

Червонец огненный (лат. Lycaena virgaureae)

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This butterfly is drinking water from a small receptacle in the nursery.

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The speckled wood butterflies are back and taking up their normal position on the sunchairs

dark green fritillary taking nectar

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The drive to Fermyn Woods and time spent tracking down this beautiful, if elusive, butterfly were well worth it in the end.

a camouflage

The plant is under attack from aphid above and the newly emerged larva below.

This Heliconius cydno specimen was entered into the Manawatu Camera Club competition for the month. We had a very tough, but fair judge who awarded it a Commended. I felt it looked overexposed on the stand today, but the monitor screen is always very different (you almost need to print test shots!)

Macro practice

Speckled wood butterfly on tulip. Focus stacked using zerene

Paź królowej (Papilio machaon)

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Red admiral butterfly feeding on yellow bottlebrush flowers. Natural light

Speckled wood butterfly in mollis azalea flower

Holly blue butterfly closeup

American Copper - I love these guys. They are about the size of your thumbnail, but guard their little territories with tremendous zeal.

:) 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 !!]

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Found this guy last summer in my backyard just hanging out.

First speckled wood butterfly of the year arrived in the garden today so I thought I'd start getting it used to the camera. These butterflies are territorial and tend to hang around the same area for weeks.

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