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What Men Want

25/4/2012

Yesterday evening I visited an other Cuckoo Flower area and found a lot of resting Orange-tips. As it was too windy I decided to return this morning to photograph them, hopefully with a beautiful sunrise. Nearby home I found an other Orange-tip (male) resting on Forget-me-not flowers.

When I woke up this morning I decided to stay around and photograph the Orange-tip on the blue flower. When I was busy I noticed that a second Orange-tip, a female, was also sleeping between the Forget-me-not flowers. A male and a female butterfly......maybe I have some luck and they will ‘like’ each other. But as it was cold and windy and both butterflies were still resting, I decided to come back later again. In the meantime I was satisfied with my photo of one resting Orange-tip on Forget-me-not.

Canon 7D; tripod; remote release; 180mm, 1/160s at F3.5 and ISO200

Two hours later I returned to the place but couldn’t find any Orange-tip. I looked around and on some other blue flowers I noticed two butterflies.....yes, they had found each other!!!! After I had taken the first photo’s I noticed that they were not mating and that she was very active. He, the true Orange-tip, was sitting, sitting or resting on that flower.

I observed them for a while and it was obvious that she wanted more.....she climbed around a few times, touched him with her tongue but nothing happened. She was very patience with him and I could take enough photos. Finally she gave up and flew away.....I looked at her in her flight and thought “we will never know what men really want”.

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