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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.
Hardest butterfly to shoot... bright blue when opened. When they land they always close up.. frustrating!
If disney were going to design a butterfly this would be it -- photographed in the Kishi Kishi butterfly garden in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles - male Julia Heliconian butterfly
Here's a butterfly in Kenya. I have no idea what it was but it was willing to hold still for a photo.
I was having a little fun with my Nikon 60mm macro lens and a couple butterflies from my collection. The textures and details on these creatures is amazing. Each butterfly, when viewed closely, is essentially a pixelated mosaic piece of art.
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) is a large (12 cm wingspan) swallowtail butterfly. It is found in the Eastern United States, as far north as southern Vermont, and as far West as extreme Eastern Colorado. It flies from spring through fall, and most of the year in the southern portions of its range, where it may produce two or three broods a year. In the Appalachian region, it is replaced by the closely-related and only recently described larger-sized Papilio appalachiensis, and in the north, it is replaced by the closely-related Papilio canadensis. These three species can be very difficult to distinguish, and were formerly all considered to be a single species. Adult males are yellow, with four black "tiger stripes" on each fore wing. The trailing edges of the fore and hind wings are black which is broken with yellow spots. On the medial margin of the hind wing next to the abdomen there are small red and blue spots.