Butterflies in Indonesia

Selasa, 25 Maret 2008

Dark Glassy Tiger

This black-and-white butterfly is known as Dark Glassy Tiger [Parantica agleoides]

Rustic

Medium size butterfly, known as Rustic [Cupha erymanthis], captured at Gita Persada Butterfly Park, in Lampung

Painted Jezebel

This medium size butterfly is Painted Jezebel (Delias hyparete), commonly seen in Sumatera and Java islands, perhaps also in other islands in Western Indonesia.

Sabtu, 08 Maret 2008

Great Eggfly

This beautiful large butterfly is a Great Eggfly [Hypolimnas bolina], displaying beautiful colors and pattern of upper surface of its wings ......

Stripped Albatros

This medium size white butterfly is a Stripped Albatros [Appias libythea olferna], I guess this is a male one .............

Capturing details of a black butterfly is not very easy. I hope some details on its black wings are still visible in this shot. This -I believe- is a Spotted Black Crow [Euploea crameri bremeri] ......

Grass Demon

Another skipper, this might be a Grass Demon [Udaspes folus] ........

Why Insect?

I had taken pictures of many different subjects, including beautiful natural landscape, great buildings with their unique architectural design, cityscape, interesting people from different part of the world, other larger animals, but at the end I become more interested in taking picture of insect. Why?

There are some reasons: [1] insects are not only beautiful but also amazingly rich in diversity of shape, size, color, and texture; [2] some small insects are even more amazing when they are magnified, captured with macro lens; [3] insect behavior is also very interesting to watch and, of course, it would be nice to share it with others, either in still photo or video. However, I personally, prefer in form of still photos.

Most of insect photos, that I share with you in this blog, were captured alive at their natural habitat. Therefor, I am not only trying to show their beauty but also trying to give idea on where they live and how they interact with their surroundings.