Blue Tiger Butterfly

This lovely picture was captured by Pushpa at her work place on a rainy October afternoon. 

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common sailor butterfly

The common sailor butterfly is a brown butterfly with three rows of white streaks and spots. The other possible name for this butterfly is common sergeant.

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Common red pierrot

This white-black-orange butterfly is called Common red pierrot.

The color pattern is amazing. White with black spots, black patch with white spots and an orange band with white spots. Yin, Yang & more.

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tiger butterfly in flight

September 29, 2012

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butterfly resting

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new born butterfly

This butterfly was seen at Wagengera fort.

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Lemon Yellow Butterfly

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Plain Tiger under a mango leaf

Sunday morning I was at uncle's place for breakfast. While poori and vegetables got ready I went for a walk in the mango garden behind the house looking for spiders. Exploring the trees, I spotted this beautiful creature. My first thought why was it upside down? I approached it slowly and hurriedly took few shots expecting it to flutter away.


The little friend was unperturbed. Perhaps it was still cold and trying to get warm. The Tiger was flapping its wings real slow ...may be flapping is not the right word. Probably it wanted sun light to fall on its body too.


The Tiger continued to move wings for couple of minutes.


Sun light passing through the Tiger's wings casts a gold hue on the mango leaf.


The Tiger is absolutely still now.


I was happy my presence did not disturb my little friend.

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Tailed Jay

Unlike the Crimson Rose at the botanical garden, this butterfly was much more relaxed with a human present close by.
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Crimson Rose

After a Sunday afternoon nap, I was at Botanical Garden's nursery shotting flowers with a wide angle lens. I saw a big black & red butterfly fluttering around but I did not attempt to shoot it. Butterflies are active and alert at this time of the day, no chance of catching them for a picture. But I had a wish to shoot this lovely creature ...one good shot or even a bad one would make me happy.


I was done with shooting flowers. I thought I'll try birds and switched over to zoom lens. I shot a crow. As I came close to nursery exit, my black & red friend started circling me. Something in my mind told me, it will sit close by. Yes! It landed on a plant less then 4 feet from me. That's just outside the minimum range of the lens. I caught it in my view-finder, luckily the lens was in auto-focus, click-click, I got two. As I was about to click the third time, it vanished from the frame. I waited for few minutes... no, that's it. ASHTE. I checked the pictures in the camera screen, they looked great even though I knew some portions would be blurred.

The one above is the cropped copy. Here are the original shots but reduced from '5184 pixels x 3456 pixels' to '1200 x 800'.



Notice how the wings have moved between the two shots?

Crimson Rose (Atrophaneura hector) is a large swallowtail butterfly belonging to the subgenus Pachliopta (Roses) of the Red-bodied Swallowtails (genus Atrophaneura).

Thanks to the friend who found the name of this butterfly for me.

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Insects... by Canon

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Bhanuvara Madhyana at Botanical Garden

A reddish brown dragonfly was a slippery customer, it took off before I could take picture.

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Insects 'eye' saw

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