Super Spots - _TNY_0915
This equally eye-catching and difficult to photograph, male blue-frosted banner (Catonephele numilia), also known as the blue-frosted banner, blue-spotted firewing, blue-frosted Catone, Grecian shoemaker or stoplight Catone was trying to enjoy an orange at the Haga Ocean butterfly house. It was however bothered a bit by a much larger pale owl butterfly, (Caligo memnon) which actually chased this one over the edge of the orange.
He eventually climbed back and leaning through a railing and out over the water, I managed this shot where the larger butterfly was only partially in shot.
Then in Photoshop I edited out the grumpy bully completely and ended up with this shot. That'll show him!
The name "blue-frosted banner" of course comes from the blue edge of the hind wings and there are no points for figuring out why it is also called the "stoplight Catone". The origin of "Grecian shoemaker is beyond me though. Please tell me if you know.
That this is a male is extremely easy to tell as the girls look nothing like the boys and instead are a paler black with a single white band over each wing plus one red spot per wing and red eyes.
I actually had a little trouble shooting and editing this one due to the colouration. That black is so deep and non-reflective that most details just disappear into it - and then the intense orange messes up attempts at over-exposing so it was a bit of a compromise.
Super Spots - _TNY_0915
This equally eye-catching and difficult to photograph, male blue-frosted banner (Catonephele numilia), also known as the blue-frosted banner, blue-spotted firewing, blue-frosted Catone, Grecian shoemaker or stoplight Catone was trying to enjoy an orange at the Haga Ocean butterfly house. It was however bothered a bit by a much larger pale owl butterfly, (Caligo memnon) which actually chased this one over the edge of the orange.
He eventually climbed back and leaning through a railing and out over the water, I managed this shot where the larger butterfly was only partially in shot.
Then in Photoshop I edited out the grumpy bully completely and ended up with this shot. That'll show him!
The name "blue-frosted banner" of course comes from the blue edge of the hind wings and there are no points for figuring out why it is also called the "stoplight Catone". The origin of "Grecian shoemaker is beyond me though. Please tell me if you know.
That this is a male is extremely easy to tell as the girls look nothing like the boys and instead are a paler black with a single white band over each wing plus one red spot per wing and red eyes.
I actually had a little trouble shooting and editing this one due to the colouration. That black is so deep and non-reflective that most details just disappear into it - and then the intense orange messes up attempts at over-exposing so it was a bit of a compromise.