A colorful butterfly visited the garden!
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This is the Indian fritillary a colorful and common butterfly from India through Japan.
Here, it is comparing its wings to a pansy blossom!
I think it was laying eggs in the area as last well I found an Indian fritillary caterpillar (to be featured in a post in the near future!) Which was kindly relocated out of the garden.
Resting with wings open.
Portrait time!
Walking in the park I was lucky to spot a Blue Admiral butterfly. This is very effectively camouflaged when perched on a tree, less so when resting on a cement block!
The wings look tattered, however they are not! They do appear to be a bit worn though. This is a part of the camouflage used by the butterfly, the tears help break up the "butterfly" shape, though if you look closely, both wings have years and cracks in the same places on both wings.
Had to chase it for a bit to get a nice portrait of this one too! Silly thing kept perching on my hat!
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lovely butterfly my friend.....
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Thank you very much @homeartpictures!
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welcome...
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Nice photos! The orange colour mixing into red next to the blue/indigo is beautiful.
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It certainly is! Thanks @felixhugo!
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The world is rich about butterflies. Did you know that different types are about 160 000, over world. I like your pictures :)
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There certainly are many different species! 160k is a surprisingly large number!
Thank you for your support!
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I love the combination of contrasting colours on the Indian fritillary. Beautiful!
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Thank you! It is a really beautiful butterfly! I'm lucky that they live around here.
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Gorgeous butterflies! Great macro :)
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Thank you for your continuing support @pepe.maya! :)
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im so in love with this girls!!!! Your work its very great, looks like they are your models!
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Thank you, butterflies are terrible at listening to direction!
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Hahahahaha
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Wow amazing pictures and butterflies, thank you for sharing, i follow you for more post I love nature and in special insects. (Sorry if my english its wrong Im From Spain)
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Thank you for your support! Don't worry too much about your English, communication is the most important and you've managed that well!
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Thank you, Im learning and steemit its good for practice :)
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Wow photos of the butterflies are very beautiful comrades .. right shots
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Thank you very much!
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You are welcome :-)
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