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Posts Tagged ‘butterfly’
Blue Pansy II
April 30th, 2012
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Junonia orithya is a nymphalid butterfly with many subspecies occurring from Africa, through southern and south-eastern Asia, and in Australia. In India its common English name is the Blue Pansy, but in southern Africa it is known as the Eyed Pansy as the name Blue Pansy refers to Junonia oenone. Tweet
Common Leopard
April 17th, 2012
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Usually this butterfly sits with its wings open – rare to see the underside of wings Tweet
Gray Pansy – Junonia atlites
April 16th, 2012
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The Gray Pansy or Grey Pansy (Junonia atlites) is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia. Tweet
Photographing Butterflies – A mini HowTo
April 7th, 2010
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When my above butterfly picture made it to Flickr explore, making the count of my butterflies in explore to five I got a couple of request for writing a HowTo about capturing good butterfly pictures. I am not claiming to be an expert in butterflies nor do I assume that I have taken exceptional pictures [...]
Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus)
January 4th, 2010
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The Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus) or outside Asia, African Monarch, is a common butterfly which is widespread in Asia and Africa. It belongs to the Danainae (“Milkweed butterflies”) subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It is believed to be one of the first butterflies to be used in art. A 3500 year old Egyptian [...]
One-spot Grass Yellow Butterfly (Eurema andersonii)
October 16th, 2009
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The article on One-spot Grass Yellow on Wikipedia is sadly just a stub – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurema_andersonii. Expand it if you have the knowledge Tweet
Striped Tiger (Danaus genutia)
September 17th, 2009
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The Common Tiger (Danaus genutia) belongs to the “Crows and Tigers” butterflies, that is, the danainae group of the Brush-footed butterflies family. The butterfly is also called Striped Tiger in India to differentiate it from the equally common Plain Tiger Danaus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danaus_genutia Tweet
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