Mimic Butterfly

This is a male Mimic Butterfly that I shot in the Skukuza Staff Village in the Kruger National Park. This is also the last post that I will be making on Blogger. I have decided to move over to Wordpress and from now on will be blogging at DeurMyLens.wordpress.com.

The Beautiful Cruiser

This is the beautiful female Cruiser butterfly. The male butterfly is as impressive, I posted a picture of one earlier here.

The Cruiser

This is the beautiful Cruiser Butterfly, but because of it's lovely orange colour I think I'll name it Ginnie instead. :)

Up Close With The Birdwing

I visited the Melbourne Zoo Butterfly House and saw some amazing butterflies. The one shown here is native to the Northern parts of Australia and is called the Cairns Birdwing Butterfly.

Ivan the Terrible

I named him Ivan the Terrible, just look at the "don't mess with me" look on this butterfly's face.

The White-banded Plane

From what I can see this is the White-banded Plane butterfly, also known as the Phaedyma Shepherdi from the Phaedyma genus, belonging to the Nymphalidae family that is part of the Lepidoptera order under Insecta class found in the Arthropoda Phylum (what ever that may be) which ultimately belongs to the Animalia kingdom! Sheesh! Let's just say it's a very beautiful butterfly and leave it at that!

The Wandering Monarch

This is a male Wanderer butterfly, known as the Monarch butterfly in North America. It is part of the Nymphalidae family, Danainae subfamily. It is interesting that the male Nymphalidae butterflies' forelegs are reduced, so there are only four legs visible. They are also sometimes seen flying in warm sunlight with sweaty, overweight photographers running after them trying to get a good shot while mumbling to themselves. This one finally stopped a few minutes, unfortunately not in the sunlight but a nice picture none the less. 

Cabbage White

...that is the name of this little butterfly. I'm sure they could have thought of a nicer name, but there you have it. According to the Queensland Museum, this fellow is a pest of cruciferous crops such as cabbages, hence the name. Pest or not though, it's a beautiful little creature.