Beautiful Butterfly
by Robert Bales
Title
Beautiful Butterfly
Artist
Robert Bales
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Photograph - Photo
Description
While on a little hike in the mountains I came upon this beautiful butterfly. It took a little time to get the photo because of the constant movement.
Fritillaries are a smaller group within the butterfly family Nymphalidae. All butterflies in this family have tiny front legs that lack claws (in most other butterfly families, the front legs have claws). This family includes many other common butterflies, including viceroys, checkerspots, and heliconians. Togther, all of the butterflies in this family are known as "brush-footed butterflies."
The fritillary subfamily is called Argynninae. Fritillaries are usually medium- to large-sized, and their wings are brownish-orange with wavy black lines and spots. As with all butterflies, fritillaries have scaly wings and coiled mouthparts.
Since most fritillaries look very similar, wing patterns must be closely examined and compared with pictures in field guides for accurate identification. There are also a few species of Checkerspots and Crescent butterflies (also in the Nymphalidae family) that look very much like fritillaries.
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August 6th, 2013
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Comments (19)
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Please place your featured image in the Feature Archive and any other appropriate Archives l/f/p
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks, Christopher for the nice feature, invite, congrats, and the promotion!!
Linda Phelps
V Excellant eye popping image of this butterfly. The detail is outstanding! I really like the othere elements of this photo. it is nice to see bit of the butterfly colors repeat4d in the background.
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks Linda for the very nice review on the butterfly and I am very glad you enjoyed the photo!! Thanks for the vote!!
Charlotte Gray
Gorgeous picture of butterfly on a flower, doesn't get much better than that! I voted!
Deb Halloran
Hi Robert, What a beautiful presentation! Excellent colors, fantastic light and amazing detail. It does not get much better than this. Well done! c/f
Lois Bryan
Beautiful capture ... I love the wonderful combination of colors!!! Fabulous detail on the wings!!! f/v
Sunny Karuhaka
Colors and composition are excellent, beautifully captured, great work of art !......v/f
Judy Via-Wolff
Stunning image! Your work is beautiful and do so appreciate your comments as you are quite the master! I know the feeling here as I chased around a monarch in the mountains last year for half an hour before she finally consented to my photographing her!!! Stunning patterns on the beauty, BRAVO! fv vote
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks Judy for the wonderful review and comment about my work and thanks for the vote. I think I have chased many without getting anything. I remember being in the middle of a migration and that was wonderful.
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