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Another visit to the London Butterfly house and yet more new species as well as more familiar ones.
Butterfly1.jpg |
Zebra.jpg |
MaleCommonEggfly1.jpg |
MaleCommonEggfly2.jpg |
MaleCommonEggfly3.jpg |
Butterfly2.jpg |
Unidentified butterfly. | Zebra. | Male Common Eggflies | Black Tipped Diadem butterfly. |
Lacewing1a.jpg |
Lacewing1b.jpg |
Butterfly3.jpg |
FemaleCommonEggfly1.jpg |
Butterfly4 |
FemaleCommonEggflies.jpg |
Two shots of the same Lacewing. | Unidentified butterfly. | Female Common Eggfly. | Chocolate Pansy (or Chocolate Soldier). | Female Common Eggflies feeding. |
Butterfly5.jpg |
Clipper.jpg |
MaleCommonEggfly4.jpg |
Lacewing2.jpg |
Butterfly6.jpg |
Lacewing3.jpg |
Unidentified butterfly. | Thai Clipper. | Male Common Eggfly. | Lacewing. | Chocolate Pansy (or Chocolate Soldier). | Lacewing. |
Butterfly7.jpg |
GiantAtlasMoth.jpg |
MatingCommonEggflies.jpg |
PinkRose.jpg |
Butterfly8.jpg |
Butterfly9.jpg |
Green Banded Swallowtail butterfly. | Giant Atlas Moth | Mating Common Eggflies. | Pink Rose. | Unidentified butterfly. | Unidentified butterfly. |
Butterfly10.jpg |
IndianLeaf1a.jpg |
IndianLeaf1b.jpg |
Butterfly11.jpg |
HecalesLongwing.jpg |
FemaleCommonEggfly2.jpg |
Unidentified butterfly. | 2 shots of an Indian Leaf. | Unidentified butterfly. | Hecales Longwing. | Female Common Eggfly. |
Butterfly12.jpg |
Unidentified butterfly. |
I took some pictures of butterflies and moths while on holiday in Costa Rica. The 3rd and 4th were spent at Laguna Lodge in Tortuguero. There is a butterfly garden there, as well as woods where butterflies such as the Owl live wild.
Butterfly1.jpg |
Butterfly2a.jpg |
Butterfly2b.jpg |
Owl.jpg |
Butterflies3.jpg |
Moth.jpg |
Unidentified butterfly. | 2 shots (one overexposed but better focus) of Unidentified 1-2cm butterfly. | Owl butterfly. | Unidentified butterflies mating. | Unidentified ~10cm moth. |
Butterfly1.jpg |
Butterfly2.jpg |
Butterfly3.jpg |
GiantSwallowtail.jpg |
A Banded Peacock butterfly. | Unidentified butterfly. | Small Postman butterfly. | Giant Swallowtail. |
I took some pictures of butterflies and moths while on holiday in Costa Rica. The 1st was spent at Monte Verde. On the 2nd we stopped at Selva Tropical Restaurant, which has a small open butterfly garden, on the way to Tortuguero.
Butterfly.jpg |
Butterfly1.jpg |
Butterfly2.jpg |
Butterfly3.jpg |
GiantSwallowtail.jpg |
Unidentified butterfly. | Mosaic butterfly. | Unidentified butterfly. | Unidentified butterfly. | Giant Swallowtail. |
I took some pictures of butterflies and moths while on holiday in Costa Rica. The 31st was spent at Monte Verde. The first 3 moths were found on cars at the hotel. At the top of the mountain there is a Skywalk and Skytrek centre. The other 14 moths were on the wall of the main building of this centre.
Moth1.jpg |
Moth2.jpg |
Moth3.jpg |
Moth4.jpg |
Moth5.jpg |
Moth6.jpg |
Unidentified moth. | Unidentified moth. | Unidentified moth. | Male Eacles ormondei moth. | Xylophanes jordani moth. | Protambulyx strigilis moth. |
Moth7.jpg |
Moth8.jpg |
Moth9.jpg |
Moth10.jpg |
Moth11.jpg |
Moth12.jpg |
Unidentified moth. | Unidentified moth. | Unidentified moth. | Female Eacles ormondei moth. | Xylophanes cyrene moth. | Unidentified moth. |
Moth13.jpg |
Moth14.jpg |
Moth15.jpg |
Moth16.jpg |
Moth17.jpg |
Unidentified moth. | Unidentified moth. | Unidentified moth. | Unidentified moth. | Dirphia avia moth. |
I took some pictures of butterflies and moths while on holiday in Costa Rica. The 30th was spent at Monte Verde. In the afternoon I visited a butterfly place not far from the hotel. After dark we went on a guided night hike where the Hawk Moth larva was spotted.
Butterfly1.jpg |
Butterfly2.jpg |
Butterfly3a.jpg |
Butterfly3b.jpg |
Butterfly4.jpg |
Unidentified 2-3cm butterfly. | Small Postman butterfly. | Tiger Clearwing butterfly. | Cydno Longwing butterfly. |
BlueMorpho1.jpg |
Butterfly5.jpg |
Butterfly6.jpg |
BlueMorphos.jpg |
BlueMorpho2.jpg |
Blue Morpho. | Unidentified butterfly. | Blomfild's Beauty butterfly. | Blue Morphos feeding on rotten fruit. | Blue Morpho. |
TigerStripedLongwing1.jpg |
TigerStripedLongwing2.jpg |
HawkMothLarva.jpg |
2 shots of a Tiger Striped Longwing. | Hawk Moth larva in the rainforest. |
I took some pictures of butterflies and moths while on holiday in Costa Rica. The butterflies were taken at Tabacon hot springs near the Arenal volcano, while the huge moth was seen in a restaurant on the outskirts of San Jose after dark.
Butterfly1a.jpg |
Butterfly1b.jpg |
Butterfly2.jpg |
HugeMoth.jpg |
2 shots of a White Angled Sulphur butterfly. | A Banded Peacock butterfly. | Huge 15cm+ Female Black Witch Moth. |
I joined the AES Bug Club at the London Butterfly House. Compared to a year and a half ago the species set present were slightly different. Naturally I took lots of pictures, some of familiar species, some of ones I had never seen before.
Note that I had to use the flash in quite a lot of these pictures as light levels were quite low. I think the worst affected butterfly was the Owl. I managed to get a shot of it's wings open. The top surface looks quite dull in natural light, but the flash made it look bright blue!
MaleArchduke1.jpg |
CydnoLongwing1.jpg |
Malachite.jpg |
Clipper1.jpg |
Butterfly1.jpg |
TreeNymph.jpg |
Male Archduke | Cydno Longwing | Malachite | Philippino Clipper on AES Bug club member's hand | Ariadne Ariadne. | Tree Nymph |
Butterfly2.jpg |
Butterfly3.jpg |
Butterfly4.jpg |
Caterpillar1.jpg |
IndianLeaf1.jpg |
FemaleCommonEggfly1.jpg |
MaleCommonEggfly1.jpg |
Lemon Pansy | Common Mime | Banded Purple Wing (or Blue Wave) | Unidentified | Indian Leaf | Female Common Eggfly | Male Common Eggfly |
CydnoLongwing2.jpg |
GiantAtlasMoth1.jpg |
BlueMorpho1.jpg |
BlueMorphoCaterpillar.jpg |
WhiteMorpho1.jpg |
WhiteMorpho2.jpg |
Cydno Longwing | Giant Atlas Moth | Blue Morpho | Blue Morpho Caterpillar | 2 Shots of the same White Morpho. Shame the head closeup suffered from camera shake. |
CommonSergeant1.jpg |
Caterpillar2.jpg |
Butterfly5.jpg |
Butterfly6.jpg |
TailedJay1.jpg |
Caterpillar3.jpg |
Butterfly7.jpg |
Common Sergeant | Unidentified | Scarce Bamboo Page | Green Banded Swallowtail | Tailed Jay | Unidentified | Chocolate Pansies (or Chocolate Soldiers) mating. |
FemaleCommonEggfly2.jpg |
Moth1.jpg |
Moth2.jpg |
Butterfly8.jpg |
Clipper2a.jpg |
Clipper2b.jpg |
Clipper2c.jpg |
Female Common Eggfly | 2 shots of unidentified moth. | Ariadne Ariadne. | 3 shots of a freshly emerged and very large Thai Clipper on my finger. |
GaudyCommodore1.jpg |
GreatOrangeTip.jpg |
Caterpillar4.jpg |
Butterfly9.jpg |
Lacewing.jpg |
GiantAtlasMoth2.jpg |
Gaudy Commodore | Great Orange Tip | Unidentified | Chinese Yellow Swallowtail | Lacewing | Giant Atlas Moth |
Butterfly10.jpg |
HecalesLongwing.jpg |
Glasswing1.jpg |
Glasswing2.jpg |
WhiteMorpho3.jpg |
FemaleArchduke1.jpg |
Red Lacewing. | Hecales Longwing | 2 Glasswings that decided to land on me and feed on my sweat. | White Morpho | Female Archduke |
Owl1a.jpg |
Owl1b.jpg |
Butterfly11a.jpg |
Butterfly11b.jpg |
CommonSergeant2.jpg |
BlueMorpho2.jpg |
2 shots of an Owl with wings open. Wings appear blue because of the flash. In natural light they look brown. | 2 shots of a Green Banded Swallowtail butterfly. | Common Sergeant | Blue Morpho |
CommonRoseSwallowtail.jpg |
Butterfly12.jpg |
Owl2.jpg |
MaleCommonMormon.jpg |
GreenBarredSwallowtail.jpg |
Butterfly13.jpg |
Common Rose Swallowtail | Green Banded Swallowtail | Owl | Male Common Mormon | Green Barred Swallowtail | Pink Cattle Heart |
Some butterfly photographs managed while I was on holiday in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I also remember seeing other butterflies flying around that I had seen in the London Butterfly House, including the Flambeau and possibly the Giant Swallowtail. I had to use the flash for the museum grounds butterflies as it was quite dark under the trees.
Butterfly.jpg |
GlasswingButterfly.jpg |
Butterfly.jpg |
Butterfly1.jpg |
Butterfly2.jpg |
2-3cm Riodina lycisca butterfly resting in the shade at Ibipapuera park. | A Glasswing butterfly in the grounds of the Museum of Brazil. | 2-3cm Lysimnia Clearwing butterfly in the grounds of the Museum of Brazil. | 5-6cm Papilio scamander butterfly in Jardim Botanico. | 4-5cm Sara Longwing butterfly in Sao Paulo Zoo. |
During a pleasant weekend in France I had a surprise trip to a place called Naturospace in Hornfleur. This is a butterfly house. It is smaller than the London Butterfly House but still plenty to see. As I had my camera with me I managed to photograph some of them. Most notable event: as soon as I entered the tropical section a Scarlet Mormon landed on my camera and laid an egg on it!
Butterfly1.jpg |
TailedJay.jpg |
Butterfly2.jpg |
Clipper.jpg |
Butterfly3.jpg |
GiantSwallowtail.jpg |
Pink-spotted Cattle Heart butterfly. | Tailed Jay. | Pink Rose butterfly. | Philippino Clipper. | As yet unidentified butterfly. | Giant Swallowtail. |
Owl.jpg |
TigerStripedLongwing1.jpg |
Butterfly4.jpg |
Glasswing.jpg |
Cracker.jpg |
ScarletMormons.jpg |
Owl. | Tiger Striped Longwing. | Malachite. | Glasswing. | Cracker. | Scarlet Mormons Mating. |
Butterfly5.jpg |
Butterfly6.jpg |
Monarch.jpg |
Butterfly7.jpg |
Butterfly8.jpg |
Butterfly9.jpg |
Flambeau butterflies. | Monarch. | Common Crow butterfly. | Hecales Longwing. | Small Postman butterfly. |
Butterfly10.jpg |
TigerStripedLongwing2.jpg |
MaleCommonMormon.jpg |
TreeNymphsGlasswings.jpg |
TreeNymph.jpg |
Cocoons.jpg |
Pink-spotted Cattle Heart butterfly. | Tiger Striped Longwing. | Male Common Mormon. | Tree Nymphs and Glasswings feeding. | Tree Nymphs. | The cocoon chamber. |