Yesterday I found out that the Spanish word for butterflies is mariposas.......what a beautiful and tender word for ‘my’ beloved insects! More than 20 years ago I visited Spain a few times but for other purposes than mariposas. Since weeks we have summer temperatures in the Netherlands and fortunately the summer species are doing well at the moment. Yesterday we reached 35,5 °C! The only bad thing is that the nights and early mornings are too warm and dewless; the butterflies are active very early and it’s almost impossible to photograph them. So, the last days I photographed some species at day. A large amount of Gatekeepers is ‘populating’ my direct surrounding; too much to count! The Gatekeeper is a very active, more nervous, butterfly so sometimes I wonder who ever came up with the name Gatekeeper? This Gatekeeper flew away from me (I think I’m scary) very early but happily to a place where the first sun lighted up the background beautiful. Two days ago I suddenly noticed a lot of yellow butterflies on Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). More than 10 hungry Brimstones were visiting this plant and I tried to photograph this butterflies with open wings at flight (they never rest or sit down with open wings). To catch them flying and to get a decent photo was very difficult. It was very windy and the flowers were moving too much; despite a quicker shutter time I did not get the photo which I had in mind. I also noticed that the background of most of the photos is terrible so I have plans for a new Lythrum location. Yesterday evening I had a nice visitor; a Small Tortoiseshell (talking about names........). In the Netherlands a very common butterfly but in my direct area a rare guest. Mariposas are lovely and I'm curious what the next days will bring!
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It’s almost unbelievable, but due to the warm weather a lot of butterflies were still active. A few days ago I saw an fresh emerged Speckled Wood and this guy......any idea what kind of butterfly this is? Be my guest and guess! Who am I?
Canon 7D; tripod; remote release; 180mm, 1/125s at F9 and ISO160 Like some other kind of butterflies, the Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) hibernates as butterfly and every springtime he is one of the first butterflies which awakes when temperature is rising. With their yellow/greenish wings this species is invisible when they are resting between fresh/green leaves. It’s a common butterfly but not very easy to photograph as I often found the Brimstone resting on messy places low on the ground, especially in springtime. And, I must admit that since my accident with the motor cycle I became a bit lazy photographing butterflies low on the ground as my knees hurts quickly. So, this beautiful male Brimstone was resting on a flower a few days ago. It was a warm and cloudy day and like me he was lazy. In the first place I had no interest photographing him as I was busy with other things. But after a while I couldn’t resist and took my camera and tripod; he was very cooperative and I had enough time to make photo’s from different positions. Due to the backlight his wings became a bit transparent and his tender body visible. |
Jibt dir dit Leben mal een Buff, denn weene keene Träne. Lach Dir'n Ast und setz Dir druff und baumle mit de Beene.
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