2 male butterflies waiting for female to chose the one she will mate with.

Just something I shot while out in the garden!

Papilio demoleus malayanus (Lime Butterfly, 达摩凤蝶)

Acytolepis puspa lambi (Common Hedge Blue)

They have hatched!

SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA

Closeup of an unspecified orange swallowtail butterfly!

100mm f/2.8 Macro + Macro Ring Light (MR-14EX) set on -2 to balance the light

View On Black

鳳蝶科 Papilionidae

臺灣麝香鳳蝶 (長尾麝鳳蝶) Byasa impediens febanus

sooc

outtake from this.

ahh school is taking over :( and when i do have time to pictures, its dark out xp

especially now since its daylight savings. :O

Think this one is getting used to me now and allowed me fairly close

This speckled brown looks a bit scary from this angle

Shot from the archives

Monk Wood, VC37

Macro butterfly

Hanging around on Blue Fortune Hyssop. I should have bought every one of these plants they had when they were on clearance last year. They bloomed for months and the bugs just love them.....

Best On Black

Visited the Stan Hywet butterfly house today where I found the most relaxed butterflies I've yet to see. I was able to take off the telephoto and shoot with the 60 macro; they didn't care if you stood right on top of them! One landed on my speedlight as I was changing memory cards. It's hard to use your camera to take a picture of itself.

It's a lovely facility, easily the most humidified butterfly house I've yet to visit, and I've been in three this summer. And it's been a HOT summer! When I walked out into the 90-degree heat and direct sun, I felt wonderfully cool. It was an odd sensation.

More posts to come in a day or so. Also some from the garden.

Visit to RSPB Frampton Marsh

Frampton, Lincolnshire, England

Common blue butterfly on marguerite flower

穆蛺蝶

Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens