Ultra Deep Blue - _TNY_6348
Some butterflies seem to accumulate many names. Like this blue wave (Myscelia cyaniris) which is also known as blue wave, blue-banded purplewing, tropical blue wave, whitened bluewing and royal blue.
It had landed pretty low on a monstera leaf at the Haga Ocena butterfly house in Solna, Sweden so I spent quite some time on my knees in front of it waiting for it to open its wings.
As you can see, this eventually did succeed and I managed to photograph that super-intense colour. The ventral side is instead really inconspicuous in a tan camouflage pattern.
Given that this is a fairly small butterfly with a wingspan of around 35 mm / 1.3" and was sitting in the shadow, I am quite pleased with the level of detail I managed to eak out here.
Ultra Deep Blue - _TNY_6348
Some butterflies seem to accumulate many names. Like this blue wave (Myscelia cyaniris) which is also known as blue wave, blue-banded purplewing, tropical blue wave, whitened bluewing and royal blue.
It had landed pretty low on a monstera leaf at the Haga Ocena butterfly house in Solna, Sweden so I spent quite some time on my knees in front of it waiting for it to open its wings.
As you can see, this eventually did succeed and I managed to photograph that super-intense colour. The ventral side is instead really inconspicuous in a tan camouflage pattern.
Given that this is a fairly small butterfly with a wingspan of around 35 mm / 1.3" and was sitting in the shadow, I am quite pleased with the level of detail I managed to eak out here.