While we were wandering around on Mengler’s Hill in South Australia my husband and I spied a rather large Wanderer or Monarch Butterfly. So I followed it around and got a few shots, only to find this one had a companion in it, once I viewed it on the computer screen.
Category: Insects
Crane Fly
I often take photos of insects so the uncle of my daughter’s husband passed on a book for me to ID the insects. I’ve often been tagging him at Facebook to help me ID them. But this one I was able to find in the book and learnt that it is called a Crane Fly….
A butterfly in silhouette
Day 66 of my 365 day challenge. What to shoot today? I hadn’t been outside much and I don’t like to take pictures inside if I can help it – much prefer the outdoors. The light was beginning to fade, it was very late afternoon. I spied a butterfly in the scrub behind our house…
Caterpillar eating leaf
Sometimes you have to go out with a view to looking for small things. And they’re not always obvious at first. The first one is a caterpillar eating a tomato leaf – I didn’t see it till I sprayed my plants because of another bug I’d seen and then this one showed up. The other…
Butterflies at the park
This butterfly had the sunlight shining on it giving a look as though its wings were very fragile, almost like a tissue. And you can see they’re looking ragged as though torn or worn away.