Monday, March 15, 2010

MY WORLD ~ Some Tropical Butterflies

It is high time I posted this little collection of tropical butterflies
from our trip to Queensland.



Enjoying a 'Chelsea Gem' Lantana,



or the nectar from 'Geisha Girl'.



They are so very different to the butterflies we have in cooler
areas.



Even the simple browns have bright markings.



I am sorry I could not get a better picture or the irridescent
blues on this one. A little further north they are brilliant blue
all over flitting about like so many shining sapphires.

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34 comments:

  1. Gorgeous captures of such exquisite butterflies! Love all the beautiful colors and such a variety! Delightful post as always, Arija! Hope you have a wonderful week!

    Sylvia

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  2. I love this sequence. I think you did a great job capturing the varieties of butterflies. It will be a while before butterflies appear in part of the world. I find them hard to photograph even when they are here.

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  3. Wonderfully beautiful flutterbyes - good pics too!

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  4. Oh Arija!!!you have beautiful butterflies and I am waiting for true spring to come here...You made me smile..thank you... hugs...Michelle

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  5. Thank-you for sharing these beauties.They are worth a second look.Love that iridescent blue one.
    Blessings,Ruth

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  6. Beautiful butterflies. I really love the second shot.

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  7. Thee are fantastic. I really enjoyed the color and clarity and variety.

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  8. These are utterly gorgeous, Arija. Thanks for this stunning post.

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  9. Those pictures are absolutely awesome Arija. I just love Butterflies, and for whatever reason we didn't have very many last year, but none of them were anything like the colors of your beauties!
    Thanks so much.
    Becky

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  10. Such colorful captures!
    Truly beautiful shots.

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  11. they're all gorgeous, lots of different species too. Beautiful photos!

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  12. Beautiful creatures. We don't have much variety in butterflies here in California although there is one blue one similar to what you show here.
    I'm glad you enjoyed my desert wildflowers.

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  13. Quite a collection of butterflies. I have not seen the black and white. What a delight to see them fleeting.

    I am looking forward to our Butterfly Pavilion opening next month.

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  14. Beautyful pictures. I have discovered if I am at home at my blog and click next blog I get a different ones every time. And yours is like a prize. I would like to add you to my blog reading list.
    jo

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  15. Magnificent shots of butterflies. They are very colorful.

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  16. Wow...gorgeous photos! I love the varieties of butterlies and hope they will come here soooooooon!!!

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  17. Such pretty pictures! Very cheerful.

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  18. I love butterflies very much. These are really lovely. Your photos are wonderful and I completely enjoyed.

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  19. Wow Arija. Beautiful garden and amazing scenes.
    Thank you for sharing.

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  20. wow what a beautiful collection of butterflies, ours seem so plain in comparison.

    Gill in Canada

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  21. What a marvelous array of beauties you have shared, Each one more beautiful than the last. I love each of them and it makes me want to hurry the days along, so we can have our time with Butterflies once again. Thank you for delighting our path today~

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  22. so beauteous each and every one, so lovely to see. I saw my first butterfly of the season on Sunday, I also saw my first bear tracks, slowly they are waking up!

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  23. Wonderful series of butterfly shots! I really like your lilies in the last post too.

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  24. Oh, they know. They know you are filled with nature spirit. How else could you have gotten so close and taken such beautiful photos! The variety is amazing. The patterns are brilliant! I remember lots of beautiful blue butterflies in Tokyo that I hadn't seen anywhere else.

    xoxo

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  25. they're beautiful.

    it's such a treat to see butterflies.

    great shots.

    best wishes
    Ribbon

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  26. OMG!

    These are incredible!

    They probably smelled your kind kheart!

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  27. São verdadeiras jóias aladas da natureza, quando as vejo no meu jardim, paro o que estou fazendo, só para encantar-me com o seu bailado. Lindas borboletas, lindas cores e lindas fotos!!!
    Bjkas

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  28. Beautiful photos Arija! Although lantana is considered a pesty plant, I remember we had a hedge of it in our yard as a child, and it was always covered in butterflies.

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  29. These are beautiful photos of stunning butterflies. Takes me back to my youth when they(butterflies) gave me such joy in my solitude(aloneness). Thank you for sharing them Arija.
    Smiles

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  30. Beautiful butterflies !!!!
    I love this photo !
    Happy week

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  31. Stunning captures, Arija! I think I like the black and white butterfly the best (maybe it's just the colors in the photo?), even though they are all beautiful.

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  32. Oh my! Just look at all those beautiful butterflies! I am so impressed. I cannot wait for warmer weather when we will once see these beautiful creatures flittering about the gardens. These are magnificent shots!!!

    Hugs and kisses♥

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  33. OMGoodness, fabulous photos! I did not dare enlarge them for fear of fainting from sheer delight. Hope you feel better soon. **kisses** Deb

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