Painted lady invasion part 2

Lord Vetinari

Had my own mini-invasion of the french painted lady butterflies yesterday morning- had more than a dozen fluttering around the front garden feeding on the flowers. Full flash closeups.

Paul Iddon

Marvellous eye detail Brian. I never realised they had "hairy" eyes!


Paul.

Lord Vetinari

Paul Iddon wrote:

Marvellous eye detail Brian. I never realised they had "hairy" eyes!


Paul.

Thanks Paul
Many butterflies have hairy eyes- seems to be common amongst insects that get near pollen.
Brian V.

Corehead

I remember those.

I think it was early summer 1997 in the Phoenix area.

The painted lady butterflies were swarming so densely for at least a week that they were nigh plague proportions.

But whoever heard of a "plague" of butterflies?!

GOLDENORFE

beautifull!
actually saw my first on monday, guess it wasnt a migrant:D
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments

Well we had a plague of ladybirds in 1976 after an extremely warm summer.
Brian V.

PhilH

These are superb Brian, particularly the last

Can I ask, is there any stacking going on here or are they all single shot?

Lord Vetinari

PhilH wrote:

These are superb Brian, particularly the last

Can I ask, is there any stacking going on here or are they all single shot?

Thanks Phil,
Yes they are all stacked, the first 3 just using 2 shots each but the higher mag shots used about 6 shots each.
Brian v.