Ideal for Identification - _TNY_6510
When I get home from a visit to the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden after having found a species I haven't seen before, it is sometime bloody difficult to figure out which species it is. I mean, not all the time, but on occasion, like when I only get shots of one side of the wings and the other side looks completly different.
And then there are shots like this one. Not one, but two king swallowtails (Papilio thoas) has crawled out of their chrysalides and were hangning underneath them while the wings were hardening so they could fly for the first time.
Fortunately for me, this meant I got both the dorsal and the ventral side in the same shot.
For a shot where the foremost one has its wings still folded so the entire wings of the other one is showing, please have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53451256273/
Also, here is a huge 194 megapixel shot of one of these two after it had made its virgin flight and landed on a leaf: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53481234989/
Ideal for Identification - _TNY_6510
When I get home from a visit to the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden after having found a species I haven't seen before, it is sometime bloody difficult to figure out which species it is. I mean, not all the time, but on occasion, like when I only get shots of one side of the wings and the other side looks completly different.
And then there are shots like this one. Not one, but two king swallowtails (Papilio thoas) has crawled out of their chrysalides and were hangning underneath them while the wings were hardening so they could fly for the first time.
Fortunately for me, this meant I got both the dorsal and the ventral side in the same shot.
For a shot where the foremost one has its wings still folded so the entire wings of the other one is showing, please have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53451256273/
Also, here is a huge 194 megapixel shot of one of these two after it had made its virgin flight and landed on a leaf: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53481234989/