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[elnigma111]

dark blue guy
4 stripes
orange guy on purple flower2
orange guy on orange flowers
water
these are my photos, don't take without permission. thanks. :)

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[muelos.livejournal.com]

Th striped ones are zebra butterflies (Heliconius charitonius). The dark blue guy is some kind of swallowtail. I need a better butterfly book.

Was this a butterfly exhibit?

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[elnigma.livejournal.com]

Brookside Gardens has a conservatory in which they purchase pupae of butterflies, they put the chrysalises in emergence boxes till they hatch out, and then those fly around the greenhouse.

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

the tough part is that these guys in the exhibit could be from all around the world.. in the picture from a previous post, P remembers that the big guy eating the fruit with the spot on his side is a "Owl" from Costa Rica. Thanks for the zebra identification, they look like a zebra. :)

[crystalstorm.livejournal.com]

Oh Wow!

I love best the orange wings!!!
and the lotus

Gawd he's perfect that butterfly.

[crystalstorm.livejournal.com]

I would put myself on his back for a ride.

Do you sometimes let people work with your images?

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

No one's asked me that before. :)

[aaangyl.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooo. Pretty!!
Where?

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I edited the last response.. Brookside Gardens. :>

p.s.

[aaangyl.livejournal.com]

I dunno if you've got them protected for a reason, but if you'd consider making these public I'd LOVE to show some of my friends. They're really lovely!

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[elnigma.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I took my LJ mostly "friends only" cause of some harassment (is there anybody who hasn't faced that?), but I guess I don't mind.

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[elnigma.livejournal.com]

I fixed them so they can see if they feel like. :)

[ashbet]

Gorgeous!! I love Brookside Gardens . . . and these are some stunning photos! :D

-- Andi <3

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

me too, and thank you. :)

[trueheart.livejournal.com]

Really lovely photos of the natural world. Thank you!

[apel.livejournal.com]

I found your LJ from your comment in sacredwhisper.

The orange guy is Julia Heliconian, Dryas julia. I went to a butterfly house here in London in February and took lots of pictures (http://www.mjausson.com/2003/walk24Feb03.htm). That's how I know. Butterflies are the coolest things.

Thanks for sharing your pictures!

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[elnigma.livejournal.com]

Thank you for telling me its name.. thank you for sharing your photos.. :)

orange guy on purple flower 2/water

[purple7luv.livejournal.com]

OMG

these are otherworldly

wordless.......

Re: orange guy on purple flower 2/water

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! Your own photos and artwork are beautiful. :)

Greetings from 'illustrators'

[agentsteel53.livejournal.com]

I love the picture of the orange butterfly on the orange flowers... I'm from a northern temperate existence where no butterfly is nearly that brilliant. The sum total of my experience is "I saw a luna moth... once."

[demonshands.livejournal.com]

These are great shots!

[elnigma.livejournal.com]

Thank you!