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The pine needles on the twig where this male small whiteface (Leucorrhinia dubia) landed make for a great size reference.
This shot is from near lake Bylsjön in the Tyresta National Park, just south of Stocklholm, Sweden.
The reason for the English cvommon nae is pretty obvious if you have a look at this shot from the same trip: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53373480575/
Here is another shot from when trying out my co-workers new Canon R6 instead of my regular camera.
The butterfly in question is a male Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii), also known as the great yellow mormon and the Asian swallowtail.
Adult male of this endemic darter to Gulf Coast drainages in TX - AL. Found in a small stream in Adams County, western Mississippi.
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A nice female Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii), also known as the great yellow mormon, at the Haga Ocean butterfly house on a November (of 2025) visit.
Today's four shots are all tropical butterflies from the Haga Ocean butterfly house - and all four are species which I haven't posted photos of before.
I initially mistook this one for one of the various female colour forms of the common mormon (P. polytes), but the two large white spots ruled that out and I now know this to be a male red Helen swallowtail (Papilio helenus helenus).
The emerald swallowtail (Papilio palinurus), also known as the green-banded peacock, is a spectacular butterfly with the dorsal side of the wings covered in iridescent green scales (like so: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52917346784/).
This one wasn't interested at all in showing me the green side here, but I think it came out as a really nice shot anyways.
How did the Spot-Billed Duck (Anas poecilorhyncha) get its name?
Is it because of the yellow spot at the end of its bill or the red spot at the base of its bill?
The emerald swallowtail (Papilio palinurus), also known as the green-banded peacock, is a spectacular butterfly with the dorsal side of the wings covered in iridescent green scales (like so: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52917346784/).
This one wasn't interested at all in showing me the green side here, but I think it came out as a really nice shot anyways.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54027691899/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54131515382/
Six-spot Burnet on Centaurea Scabiosa (greater knapweed, chaber driakiewnik). A day-flying moth (Zygaena filipendulae, krasnik szescioplamek) with six vivid red spots can be found at the roadside dry grassland on hot and sunny days. If attacked by predators like birds and lizards it emits a liquid containing cyanide.
As caterpillars grow, they need to change skin as the skin doesn't grow. Most species also change appearance between these stages, sometimes just a little and sometimes completely.
This is what I believe to be the final instar of the knot grass moth (Acronicta rumicis) and if you compare it to the preceeding instar stage here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50462526148/ the relation is obvious - but they still don't look the same.
Part 1 is a three-exposure focus stack for some added depth of field here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51854623773/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51933501459/
Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53449606925/
All three of those were with the Canon EF100mm f/2.8L IS Macro lens, but after snapping those, I shifted to the Canon MP-E65mm lens instead and found other subjects and only came back to this one about 60 shots later and got a couple at a higher magnification (this is 3.3:1).
I have also found and photographed a very very young one, second or possibly first instar stage which looked like this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51633796219/ - not exactly identical, but it still has the same chevron on the head as the older ones.
The mylotes cattleheart (Parides eurimedes) belong to the family Papilionidae, the swallowtails. One distinct difference between butterflies in Papilionidae and the largest family - Nymphalidae - is how many legs they use.
Papilionidae like this one like to use all six legs to stand on while those in Nymphalidae instead just use four legs and keep two up against their bodies. Here is a good example: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52117296583/
Another specimen of the same species as this one taken the same day here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52748890852/
One thing I really enjoy when visiting the Haga Ocean butterfly house is the people. I mean, I obviously really like the amazing butterflies and moths, but talking to the other visitors is way more satisfying than I would have thought.
I pointed out a pretty butterfly to a boy named Mussa and his mom who I met there and it turned out he wanted to be a biologist when he grew up.
Eventually, they went to have a look at the sharks instead while I stayed among the butterflies - but then he came back and said he had found a pretty one which I should see!
This turned out to be this female scarlet mormon (Papilio rumanzovia) which had landed kind of low and a little bit in from the path so without his help, I would have missed it.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53653353393/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53693356682/
I think this is a very attractive species and the females like this one are mimicking the red-bodied swallowtails in the Atrophaneura, Byasa, Losaria, or Pachliopta genera which are unpalatable to birds. They still haven't evolved far enough to get the red sections on the actual body though. The only species of these that I have seen at the butterfly house is the pink rose (Pachliopta kotzebuea) here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53653353383/
This beauty which I followed around basically the entire Haga Ocean butterfly house butterfly section before it finally landed is a female Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii), also known as the Asian swallowtail - but also the great yellow mormon.
The thing about that last name is that it most of the time doesn't make sense as the butterfly is very little yellow - and still has that name.
This is quite possibly the most yellow I've seen a great yellow mormon so I was very thankful when it landed and let me get a couple of shots.
This nicely zebra-styled beauty I found at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden, is perhaps a bit surprisingly named the orange-banded shoemaker (Catonephele orites). I have no idea where the shoemaker moniker comes from, but the orange band has a very logical reason.
This species displays a very distinctive sexual dimorphism where the female looks like this in black and white with a couple of red spots, but the male is a super-deep black colour with a intensely orange bar across the wings. I haven't (yet) photographed the male, but I have shots of the similar blue-frosted banner (Catonephele numiila) so have a look at this one: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52801790504/ and basically connect the orange dots.
As caterpillars grow, they need to change skin as the skin doesn't grow. Most species also change appearance between these stages, sometimes just a little and sometimes completely.
This is what I believe to be the final instar of the knot grass moth (Acronicta rumicis) and if you compare it to the preceeding instar stage here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50462526148/ the relation is obvious - but they still don't look the same.
Part 1 is a three-exposure focus stack for some added depth of field here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51854623773/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51933501459/
I have also found and photographed a very very young one, second or possibly first instar stage which looked like this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51633796219/ - not exactly identical, but it still has the same chevron on the head as the older ones.
I spotted this coupled pair of scarlet mormons (Papilio rumanzovia), also known as the red mormon, hanging from a leaf quite high up at my local butterfly house.
Fortunately, this was just after I had gotten myself a (Sigma) 180mm lens which offered much better reach than what I could achieve with the 100mm. Thus, I extended both sections of the tripod legs as much as the could and raised the center column to the max and was able to capture these through the leaves and vines hanging from the ceiling at pretty much level height.
A shot of this couple from the other side showing the colouration on the ventral side of the wings here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52894037272/
This lovely llittle thing is a female scarlet peacock (Anartia amathea), also known as the brown peacock.
The leaf it's sitting (or is it standing?) on belongs to a fire croton (Codiaeum variegatum).
I was just a fraction of a second too fast! The wings are still busy unfolding, they are twice the lenght of the red shields and folded double when tucked away. One can kind of see the left wing unfolding in the blur.
an uncommon dragonfly that is only found in or near upland heathy swamps above 400m. The larvae are often associated with the splash zone of small waterfalls. This one was found at Mt. Hall, Blue Mountains National Park.
Another extra extra large shot from the Haga Ocean butterfly house. This time a 3x3 panorama shot of a female Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii) which totals 315 megapixel so you can zoom in all the way on the butterfly.
So what is fake about it? Well, after capturing the center shot of the actual butterfly, I took a slightly overlapping shot to the left and right of it before returning to center, moving the frame up and repeating a center, a left and a right and finishing off with the same three but down low instead.
Or so I thought. But when I started piecing them together I realised that I forgot to take one of the nine shots!
At first, I figured I would have to abandon the shot, but then I decided to see what I could fix manually and loaded them into Kolor Autopano Giga - and found the next issue. The software had issues identifying where two of the shots fit in with the others so I was down to six shots (and not in a rectangle).
Anyways, I rendered the panorama, loaded it into Photoshop and proceeded to blend the two shots into it manually - which went extremely smoothly. Just a minimum of blending.
By now, I just had one of the four corners missing so I basically tried Photoshop's "content aware" fill on it. This is a bit hit-or-miss, but this time it was a hit and after a bit of tidying up, it was like I had had the missing piece!
Can you tell which corner is the faked one?
Flickr actually doesn't show this in full resolution here even when zoomed in so if you want all the detail you need to have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53217920105/sizes/o/ for the full 21,720x14,480 image.
Ok, so at first when you see this shot, you're thinking that it is a zebra longwing (Heliconius charithonia).
That in itself is correct, but when I look a little closer, I'm reminded of a joke my late father used to tell.
It was about an elephant who every morning as he was going to drink some water he passed an anthill. And every day he stuck his trunk down into the hill and blew as hard as he could and watched the ants and their house being thrown into the air.
While the elephant thought it was very amusing, the ants unsurprisingly weren't quite as fond of his routine so one morning when the elephant came around, they were prepared. On a given signal, every single ant threw itself at their tormentor and tried biting him.
The elephant however, just laughed at them and shook his body, causing all the ants to fly off.
All but one. A single ant had managed to hang on and was still on the elephant's neck!
That's when one of the other and screamed at the top of his lungs: "Strangle him, Tony! Strangle him!"
About now, I bet you're wondering what this has to do with a heliconiid butterfly, right? Well, if you look at the legs of the butterfly, you'll notice that "Tony" is there, trying to claim the butterfly as his prize!
The ant is mot likely a common red ant (Myrmica rubra) or some closely related species. M. rubra is often (and erroneously) called the European fire ant based on behaviour, but it isn't closely related to the real fire ant.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52639647057/
This image of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent zones was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
The color-enhanced image is a combination of three separate images taken on April 1, 2018, between 3:09 a.m. PDT (6:09 a.m. EDT) and 3:24 a.m. PDT (6:24 a.m. EDT), as Juno performed its 12th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the images were taken, the spacecraft was 15,379 miles (24,749 kilometers) to 30,633 miles (49,299 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a southern latitude spanning 43.2 to 62.1 degrees.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran
Image Number: PIA21985
Date: April 1, 2018
This beauty which was temporarily resting on the ground at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden is a female common mormon (Papilio polytes f. polytes) - as in the form polytes of the species polytes.
The females of this species are polymorphic and mimic other, unpalatable species. This one makes a fairly good impression of the common rose (Pachliopta aristolochiae), a beautiful species which I haven't photographed.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53593612199/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53938375125/
Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54340723162/
There is also a colour form which looks just like the males so here is a shot which I am unable to tell if it is a male or female: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52907390990/
A pink rose (Pachliopta kotzebuea) resting on the grating beneath the chrysalis cabinet at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden.
Unfortunately for me, it never moved during my visit so I didn't manage any shots with its wings raised, but here is an older shot showing what it would've looked like: flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52904505677/
In case you're wondering about the scientific name, the species was named for Otto von Kotzebue, commander of the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik. Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz served as physician and naturalist aboard the "Rurik" on a circumnavigational voyage from 1815–1818 (quoted from the Wikipedia page).
Looks like a duck at first glance but has no web on the feet. Loves swamps especially lotus ponds. Usually in pairs.
There really seem to be an awful lot of butterfly species which ae predominantly black with white and red accents. This is a female mylotes cattleheart (Parides eurimedes), also known as the Arcas, the pink-checked and the true cattleheart.
It is only the females who have the white markings though - males instead have a more triangular patch with a greenish hue.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52512274163/
Photo taken at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden.
I was talking to a couple of visitors at the Haga Oecan butterfly house on a mid October (of 2025) visit, right next to the chrysalis cabinet when we spotted this male silver-striped charaxes (Charaxes lasti) on the floor.
Unfortunately, most people tend to look up at the chrysalides (and flying butterflies) so those on the floor there run a very real risk of being stepped on.
Now we couldn't have that so I put my finger in front of it and Mr. Silver here immediately climed up on it. After showing it to the four-year-old boy next to me, I placed it on the stem of a cornstalk dracena (Dracena fragrans) where it immediately climbed out to the tip of one of the flowers and sat there on the underside like so many Charaxes species appear to prefer.
Not showing here is the beautifully orange dorsal side of the wings with black spots, which made it easy to tell this ws a male (the female instead has a yellow base colour). But then again, the dark red here is pretty nice as well, right?
A (sort of) portrait shot of a mylotes cattleheart (Parides eurimedes) and since it has the wings open we can see that it has white patches and not pale green which tell us it is a female.
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using a Skynyx 2-0 high speed camera and 25-cm Takahashi Mewlon at F/36 on a software bisque PME mount.
NOTE
Ganymede is left uppermost. Some surface features can be seen!
It is amazing how the tiny 3mm flowers on 50mm tall plants can survive on the deep white sands in full sun and heat of the summer. The sand was hot enough to start burning our skin through our jeans as we knelt to photograph them.
They grow in small populations in openings between Banksia trees.
I like the long pedicels (flower stalks) growing opposite each other supporting the flowers and seed cases as they form.
Fascinating little plants.
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A very fresh and newly hatched male Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii), also known as the great yellow mormon or the Asian swallowtail.
He was sitting there in the same place during this particular visit to the Haga Ocean butterfly house, trying to let the wings harden after unfolding them.
For a shot of what the male looks like with the wings open, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52721755981/
Here is another shot from back when trying out my co-worker's new Canon R6 instead of my regular camera in late February (of 2025).
The butterfly in question is a male Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii), also known as the great yellow mormon and the Asian swallowtail.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54365196994/
Another shot from the same day here:; www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54404739383/
The very pretty gold rim swallowtail (Battus polydamas), also known as the tailless swallowtail, is one of those species that look completetly different when you see the other side of the wings.
The dorsal side is black with a band of yellow spots across all four wings like this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53731687859/
I'm quite pleased with the angle on this shot of a female Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii), also known as the great yellow mormon and the Asian swallowtail.
This is the same butterfly as in these two super-high resolution shots: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53262646176/
and: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53217920105/
and in this closeup: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53196805563/
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NASA allows the public to use their raw photos to process. You can download this raw photo here: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=5185
Image Credit: NASA/SWRI/MSSS
2018-07-16 05:28 UT
I just wanted to see if I could do it. I processed it through Photoshop.