Southern White Admiral or Blauschwarzer Eisvogel

A beautiful specimen!

I can imagine your happiness, a real jewel! I have never seen this one colored blue, they are more blackish in Croatia...

Thanks, Jopy! This blue color makes it indeed looking like a little jewel. You might imagine how happy I was to see this one.

wow, your has wonderful blue color! great! :D

Thanks amoghms10 and sintija!

Very, very beautiful!!! :))

Amazing.. Beautiful shot!!!!

Thanks, Rubens and Billo!

:O amazing!

Beautiful....great shot !

Yes, I saw them but kept well clear of them, so luckily no bites!

There is even a worser scenario: bullet ants!

Sounds familiar. Standing in a nest of fire ants is my worst scenario! So many of them near where I was following butterflies near Guapiles!

I once waited 15 min. in a very uncomfortable pose standing in blackberry bushes for a Satyr ( I will post later) to get an open wing shot. No chance. Then I tried to follow him through blackberries and ferns running, climbing and whispering all the time for another 15 min. Then I got him!

Haha bayucca, i think I have some idea how much whispering you had to do. I had to do quite a bit myself, in Costa Rica!

hehehe, I second the "butterfly whisperer" title...

Thanks, my friends! I just love them! I don't tell you how much I had to whisper for this picture!

That is a beautiful thing to say Karen! He does for sure have a "special conection" to them butterflies!

That's special.

I think Dominik is a "butterfly whisperer" Tina!

Ha, ha!! Keep them!

What I lovely butterfly! Not only do you know their names, you can really photograph them in a great way too! No dent. has ever been this close to get an offer to remove my amalgam filling, hahaha!

Thanks, Pamela!

gorgeous...

Yes, you need a good nose. Remember when we both got a cold with the ID of one of yours ;-)...