While staying
with Daughter-who-takes-photos and Friend-and-son-in-law-who-loves-otters we
went to the butterfly house and otter sanctuary at Buckfast. While one of our number – it doesn’t take
much guessing to know which one – spent all his time with the otters the other
three of us split our time between the two. Here are some of the attractions in the
butterfly house. (Don’t worry, the
otters will appear at a future date).
Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides)
Owl Butterfly
(Caligo eurilochus)
Great Eggfly
(Hypolimnas bolina)
Great Orange
Tip (Hebomoia glaucippe)
A swallowtail
(Papilio palinurus)
Another
swallowtail
And, while
watching the flying flowers, one must not ignore the stationary ones.
Clipper (Parthenos Sylvia)
Malachite
(Siproeta stelenes)
Blue-frosted
Banner or Grecian Shoemaker (Catonephele
numilia) – I think this is a new species for me so
thanks to Helen for spotting it!
Such delicate beauty, both in the flying flowers and the stationary ones!
ReplyDeleteThe Stuttgart zoo (Wilhelma) have a butterfly house, too. My parents and I are probably going to go to the zoo for a concert on Friday evening, and I will take my camera along, although I doubt I'll ever get such perfectly detailed pictures.
I've never thought of myself as someone who doesn't like insects -- though I have never liked spiders. But twice now I've had the opportunity to go into a butterfly house and turned it down. I just don't like the idea of them landing on me. So maybe I am nervous about creepy crawlies. They are beautiful and fun to try to identify, but I guess not while actually on me.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful butterflies, quite different from ours.
ReplyDeleteI am smitten with the Malachite! What a beautiful creature!
ReplyDeleteP.S. You promised otters. There were no otters. I demand my rights! 8-)
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." Ralph Waldo Emerson
DeleteYou're most welcome. Thank you for identifying it!
ReplyDeleteWhat beauties. I've never seen any of them - well, possibly on photos, but not in real life. It's a very limited number of species that I come across around where I live.
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