Costarican Butterflies
Hello dear Insect fans...
It's been a while since I contributed some insect photos into this community.
I think I have posted some of photos few months ago when we were still spending our last few days in Costa Rica during summer holidays.
Now I finally managed to sort out some pictures again out of thousands in my camera (slowly reminiscing the past where every single shot was precious and that the negative roll was still intact, and now we don't even have time to sort out the pictures and decide which one to delete to save space LOL).
Ok let's just get into the pictures one by one...
The first two pictures should be presenting "Simple Checkerspot" or "Chlosyne hippodrome"
. It's not easy to get a very sharp shot of them because the sun ray was just extremely glaring at that time. These are already the best pictures I could make. We were on the way to the coffee plantation when I spotted these butterflies flying around and occasionally made a stop on the stone path in front of me so that I had the opportunity to take some pictures.
The next one is called "Helius hecale" or a tiger longwing butterfly.
This species is spread in Central America from Mexico to Panama, so it's not strange to see plenty enough of them in Costa Rica as well. I saw one in one of our walk from our lodging to the Junquillal beach.
The following pictures are most likely showing an Euptoieta hegesia.
The one I took picture here seems to have just got hurt. A small part of it's wing has been ripped off by something, but it managed to get away obviously.
I am not really sure about the species name of these last two pictures. It looks like a leafwing butterflies but as far as I knew, this kind of leaf wing butterflies or Kallima paralekta is living in Indonesia, or at least in South East Asian region, so probably it's not that kind.
I found another possibility, which is a Prochoerodes lineola or a Large Maple Spanworm. However, even this species is known as the species which spread across the North America (but at least, it's still quite near to Costa Rica...so who knows that they did manage to wander that far LOL).
But whatever it's called, I would still say that this moth is rather interesting. It's not moving at all when I took the picture for a while. It's rather uncommon for butterflies.
Normally it's really difficult to make a picture of a butterfly because it's always flying around so fast.
Anyway... I hope you like to enjoy my narration and the pictures.
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Beautiful shots. Considering the butterflies were moving, they are clear shots. The moth, however...I wonder if it was well. It was so still. But that makes for satisfying photography :)
I was also wondering whether it's fine. It still can move about as you can see that there is a difference in position between the first and the second pictures, but it's not a wide movement indeed... as if it's having a cozy time on the leaf.
If it's a brown leaf, one could say that it's trying to conceal itself, but it's a green leaf so this reason is rather not making any sense so... no idea.
As it is in the picture, it would make a rather tasty and obvious meal for a predator, unless it is toxic and native species know that.
These butterflies and the moth you found are fascinating and magnificent. I agree with you, "it's not easy to get a very sharp shot of them", but you did excellent shots.... ;)
p.s. For me, I had tried very hard, but without success! Haha ;D
These are chosen from a bunch of failed shots :-D. Try clicking continuously everytime, atleast one or two shots should be quite acceptable LOL.
Ah! Your suggestion is very helpful.... Perhaps, I can get at least one shot that can be acceptable someday..., who knows! Haha! ;)))
In the last photo, I get the impression that you want to ensure that your model moves as little as possible 😊😮.
My daughter got terrified looking at this murderous weapon 😁.
Possibly murderous – but highly efficient! 🥳
Dont't move!🎞🎡🖼