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Pareronia valeria
Light blue male butterfly
Adjacent to small stream. Altitude 1000m.
A very difficult butterfly to photograph. It teases me every day but refuses to land close by. After months of trying, I got both the male and female within a few days. Notice they both have been feeding on the same pink bloom. I need to find this flower. Update - found the flower and added an image. Dave
Spotted on Jan 4, 2013
Submitted on Jan 4, 2013
15 Comments
Wonderful series!
I agree with Karen's comment.
Gorgeous!
Ashish - yes, I noticed the wing tip spots and I was actually reluctant to put up this image as valeria without a qualified reference image. Then I found this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Dave
Dave that Messy eater spotting is fantastic...
This must be a race different from nominate valeria....
http://haliaster.web.id/slw/kupu/pierina...
In Indian males there is Blue spots within upperwing Black border at tips...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/793...
Beautiful!!
great series!
Precisa buen disparo::
Welcome to Project Noah !
Fantastic wonderful series !
Stunningly beautiful. Good work! I love that you took the time to show the pollen on the face. Yes, find that flower. :-) Thanks for sharing.
TomElliot - are you a blipper?
I posted an image of the female on blip two days ago, called 'messy eater'
http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2602729
Or perhaps just a funny coincidence :)
Messy eater!
Very beautiful pictures. Thank you very much for sharing.