Stratford Butterfly Farm 3

[nanila]

[Butterflies making more butterflies]
This is a male and a female great yellow mormon, mating. They did not budge no matter how many small children shouted and pointed at them. Now that’s focus.


Yellow caterpillar preparing to pupate.



Pupae and fresh hatchlings.


Male and female great yellow mormon, mating, with another male attempting to interfere. This was quite a violent row and difficult to capture.


I’ve sent off the film photos to be developed. I took a bunch in Delft in January. The roll was on 21 out of 36 when we got to the butterfly farm, and the children finished off the rest, so we shall see what they managed to capture. Hopefully there are some good ones in there.

Comments

[redsixwing]

These are great photos. I'd never seen a butterfly argument before.

Gosh, the pupae. It's amazing to see them in such detail.

[nanila]

The female is the one fighting off the intruding male in the last photo!

Seeing the pupae lined up like that brought home how distinctive each species' is.