Meeting Time
by Robert Bales
Title
Meeting Time
Artist
Robert Bales
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Photograph - Photo
Description
One of the many butterflies at the Boise Zoo Butterflies Bloom Exhibit . It is a great place to view many different types of butterflies. You can walk through a greenhouse-like mesh enclosure with hundreds of butterflies. Zoo Boise Director Steve Burns says the butterflies come from Costa Rica. It gives the farmers in that area the opportunity to make money off of the forests rather than have to cut it down and ranch it so it is a great way for those folks to keep the rainforests intact and still make money for their families.
Butterfly cocoons of many different kinds are shipped Fed Ex from Costa Rica to Boise, where they hatch at the Zoo. There are up to 500 butterflies in the enclosure at any given time.
Dryas iulia (often incorrectly spelled julia), commonly called the Julia Butterfly, Julia Heliconian, The Flame, or Flambeau, is a species of brush-footed butterfly. The sole representative of its genus Dryas, it is native from Brazil to southern Texas and Florida, and in summer can sometimes be found as far north as eastern Nebraska. Over 15 subspecies have been described.
Two Julia Butterflies drinking tears from turtles in Ecuador
Its wingspan ranges from 82 to 92 mm, and it is colored orange (brighter in male specimens) with black markings; this species is somewhat unpalatable to birds and belongs to the "orange" Batesian Mimicry mimic complex.
This butterfly is a fast flier and frequents clearings, paths, and margins of forests and woodlands. It feeds on the nectar of flowers, such as lantanas (Lantana) and Shepherd's-needle (Scandix pecten-veneris), and the tears of caiman, the eye of which the butterfly irritates to produce tears.[3] Its caterpillar feeds on leaves of passion vines including Passiflora affinis and Yellow Passionflower (P. lutea) in Texas.
The species is popular in butterfly houses because it is long-lived and active throughout the day.
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Comments (9)
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured in 500 Views Share Group & Shared:-)
Miroslava Jurcik
Congratulations, your outstanding image has been featured in Kingdom Animalia and selected for Best of the best gallery ! You are now welcome to add your picture to best of the best discussion tab ! l/f/p
Lori Moon
Congratulations on your feature in Black Background and Color
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks, Lori for the feature, congrats, and the promotion!! It is greatly appreciated!!
Lexa Harpell
How amazing to have four gorgeous butterflies on one flower...the soft shadows and colour combination are stunning Robert! :))
Robert Bales replied:
I was the right place the right time. Thanks so much for the wonderfup comments.
Mary Machare
What an amazing capture! Love your presentation of this colorful flower with butterflies! LF fb
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks so much for the wonderful comment and I was luck to br in the right place the right time!!
Jean OKeeffe Macro Abundance Art
Congratulations for your feature in Greeting Cards For All Occasions!
Miroslava Jurcik
Magnificent, so many butterflies !! l/f/t
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks so much and there were many buterfies at this place!! Thanks for the LFT!!