A Deceptive Name - _TNY_6463
The species of butterfly in the shot is called African blue-banded swallowtail (Papilio nireus), also known as the green-banded swallowtail and narrow-banded blue swallowtail, and it gave me fits trying to identify as this underside has golden bands, but on the dorsal side it's black with the blueish green band which of course is the source of the name.
I have a photo of another one of those from an earlier visit here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52696729128/
Also, a 105 megapixel panorama shot here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53367920577/
A Deceptive Name - _TNY_6463
The species of butterfly in the shot is called African blue-banded swallowtail (Papilio nireus), also known as the green-banded swallowtail and narrow-banded blue swallowtail, and it gave me fits trying to identify as this underside has golden bands, but on the dorsal side it's black with the blueish green band which of course is the source of the name.
I have a photo of another one of those from an earlier visit here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52696729128/
Also, a 105 megapixel panorama shot here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53367920577/