Danaus chrysippus, the dancing African Queen or Plain Tiger
Danaus chrysippus (Plain Tiger, African Monach, African Queen) These Lantana camara bushes, blooming ‘endlessly’ so to speak, are such an attractant to butterflies and other insects! Butterflies just get swooned by the psychedelic colours and the irresistible scent of the flowers, hence providing great opportunities for us nature lovers who desire to photograph them. That [...]
Tawny Coster (Acraea terpsicore or A. violae), a tropical butterfly
Acraea terpsicore or A. violae (Tawny Coster) During a visit last December to St Francis Xavier Home for the Elderly in Cheras, run by The Little Sisters of the Poor, I sighted some lovely butterfly species flying around, intoxicated by the Lantana blooms that were showing off like crazy in the Home’s compound! Of course, [...]
Colourful flowers in our garden, November 2009
How timely that our tropical garden in November 2009 was in top form to present me with enough photography opportunities to try out my relatively new point and shoot camera, Canon PowerShot SX200 IS! My dearly beloved, John, presented me an early Christmas-cum-40th wedding anniversary-cum-birthday gift during the last week of October. Hehe…too bad that [...]
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly), the dancing queen!
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Eggfly)
Our butterfly garden in October 2009
Hmm…just day-dreaming and imagining how marvelous if we do really have a butterfly garden! It’ll be paradise with all these wondrous insects, flying in droves to our tiny garden plot! Anyway, we are contented and happy that some butterfly species do visit us regularly to keep us enchanted with nature.
Chilades pandava (Cycad Blue Butterfly), the diminutive beauty
Chilades pandava pandava (Cycad Blue Butterfly, Plains Cupid) This species of blue butterflies are really very tiny and diminutive. You have to get real close and have good eyesight to enjoy its beauty. Thank God that we live in the digital age, where a simple point and shoot digital camera can work wonders to bring [...]
Daphnis nerii, a strikingly beautiful hawk-moth
Daphnis nerii (Oleander Hawk-moth) Simply spectacular! To be able to see such a captivating hawk-moth in person is just too marvelous for words. And, to see its transformation from a shriveled leaf into such a strikingly beautiful moth within less than a minute is another wonderful experience altogether. Like magic actually! Reminds me of The [...]
Elymnias hypermnestra agina (Common Palmfly)
Elymnias hypermnestra agina (Common Palmfly) The Common Palmfly is a nymphalid butterfly that often visits our tropical garden, especially attracted by our potted palm trees, located at the frontyard as well as the backyard. We grow three palm species, namely Manila Palm, Lady Palm and Macarthuri Palm and all have been ‘invaded’ by caterpillars of [...]
Lerema accius (Clouded Skipper) on Crossandra
Lerema accius (Clouded Skipper) This attractive dark-brown skipper butterfly seems to love visiting our urban home-garden. It is seen so frequently flitting from bloom to bloom that I was never in a haste to capture its image knowing that I will never run out of photo opportunity. However, one morning early last month, it decided [...]
Cephrenes trichopepla (Yellow Palm Dart)
Cephrenes trichopepla (Yellow Palm-dart)