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I thought it would be nice to start the week with a butterfly. This beautiful specimen was enjoying milkweed at "The Leaf's" butterfly exhibit.
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Heliconius erato, or the red postman, is one of about 40 neotropical species of butterfly belonging to the genus Heliconius. It is also commonly known as the small postman, the red passion flower butterfly, or the crimson-patched longwing.
Heliconius melpomene, the postman butterfly, common postman or simply postman, is a brightly colored butterfly found throughout Central and South America. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Its coloration coevolved with a sister species H. erato as a warning to predators of its inedibility; this is an example of Müllerian mimicry. H. melpomene was one of the first butterfly species observed to forage for pollen, a behavior that is common in other groups but rare in butterflies
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Postman Butterflies (Heliconius melpomene) are tropical butterflies found in Central and South America. They are most common along sunlit forest edges with flowers.Over their large range, they have many geographic subspecies with very different markings.
The Postman Butterfly can be found in open areas, also near waterways such as rivers and streams. Its diet consists mostly of nectar and pollen that it collects and digests, while their much pickier caterpillars feed only on the leaves of passionflowers. Adults roost in groups, returning to the same location each night hence the name Postman Butterfly.
The Small Postman (Longwing),is common and widespread throughout Central and South America. Adults feed on nectar from Lantana spp. and many other flowers, and collect pollen from Psiguria spp. Adults learn and memorize the location of Psiguria plants (also known as Amazon cucumber). They then return to them daily, following a pre-defined route through the forest. This is referred to as ‘trap-line’ feeding – it’s also how they earned their name of “Postman!” From the Butterfly Conservatory
Postman butterfly
Heliconius is a brightly colored butterfly found throughout Central and South America especially on the slopes of the Andes mountains. There are many morphs of this butterfly. The postman butterfly has large long wings (35–39 mm). It is poisonous and the red patterns on its wings are an example of aposematism.
Taken in the Butterfly World, Florida
A Red Postman (Heliconius Erato) also known as the red passion flower butterfly. I like this shot as you can see the tube-like proboscis, which it uncoils to sip liquid food and then coils up again into a spiral when not feeding. This image isn't really a macro as it was taken with a long telephoto lens using back button focus to servo drive inside the lens minimum focus depth.
A postman butterfly, either the common postman (Heliconius melpomene), or a red postman (Heliconius erato), in Stratford Butterfly Farm, Warwickshire.
Both H. melpomene and H erato hail from the new world, with ranges extending from Mexico through to Southern America, and are relatively abundant. Their wingspans are typically around 3.5-4 cm.
Sepia, shot with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6G lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
Wait, oh yes, wait a minute, Mister Postman
Wait, wait, hey, hey, hey, Mister Postman
Mister Postman, look and see
(Oh yeah) Is there a letter in your bag for me?
(Please, please, Mister Postman) I been waiting a long, long time
The cove/ bay behind me was littered with deserted cottages from a community long since left that i felt might have been a thriving fishing community - lost for now.
Liked the foreground, a little docking station for a small vessel perhaps one time landing fish or receiving post from the mainland but certainly a beautiful place with its peaceful natural protected harbour.
If the weather had been better would have tried for a pano, but sadly flat cloud when we were there.
She does look very small indeed, our post lady distributing letters; diminutive she is, almost lost in the village which, suddenly, is looking big and uncommitted. She is out there, on her own, unprotected, brave. There is more to her than her size.
Fuji X-E2 plus pancake lens.
"The Piano Key butterfly is one of the Heliconiie butterflies, or longwings, and are found mostly in the neotropics of South and Central America. The Piano Key is more commonly called the Postman butterfly, know in taxonomy terms as Heliconius melpomene. Melpomene, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, was originally the Greek Muse of Singing but later became the Muse of Tragedy.
The Postman is long-lived and easily managed in captivity. It has become a favorite with butterfly conservatories such as Butterfly World, The Butterfly Zoo , and The Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory. As more people have seen the Postman butterfly and noted that some have the striking white and black markings along the hindwing, they have been increasingly referred to as the Piano Key Butterfly. There is a huge variety in the markings of our longwing friend, partly because they are so closely related to the Heliconius erato, sometimes even crossbreeding."
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