A Beautiful Showing
by Sandi OReilly
Title
A Beautiful Showing
Artist
Sandi OReilly
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
During a visit to The Magic Wings Butterfly House/Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC, I was able to capture this image of a Postman Butterfly. The butterflies are in a large humidity and temperature controlled room that is also a garden for them. This one was captured quickly before it moved onto the next flower below.
The Postman butterfly has large long wings with an orange stripe down each forewing. It is poisonous and has red patterns on its wings. They tend to look similar to the species Heliconius erato. Two features found on the underside help to distinguish H. erato from H. melpomene�H. erato has four red dots where the wing attaches to the thorax while H. melpomene has three and the yellowish white stripe on the underside reaches the margin of the hindwing in H. erato but ends before reaching the margin in H. melpomene.
Fine Art Nature Photography by Sandi O'Reilly, All Rights Reserved and Copyrighted in the US and Internationally.
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March 25th, 2014
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Sandi OReilly
Appreciate your wonderful comments, Sherri, thank you so much for your sharing to FB and your Fave/Like :)
Sherri Of Palm Springs
What a pretty little guy, you have a beautiful array of insects and butterflies sherri fb fl
Anand Swaroop Manchiraju
Really so beautiful! Love the vibrant colors.Great capture and processing. L/F
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