Julia-Shaped Butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago
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Here's a Julia butterfly. As you might have gathered from this shaky photograph, I wasn't able to get a very good photograph of one, partly because I didn't see many, and partly because they move around so quickly. I saw a few in Guatemala also, around Tikal, but I wasn't even able to get a poor photograph because they wouldn't stay still. |
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This is a Postman butterfly. The ones I saw moved around about as much as the Julias, but the difference was that I saw enough to allow me to eventually get some photographs of them. |
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The ones you see here were all in the Buccoo lagoon area, which was absolutely prime territory for birds, butterflies, dragonflies and spiders. I was driving along and saw a butterfly. I then spent the next 30 or 40 minutes in one small area, taking some of the photos you see here. |
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This was the hardest shot for me to get. Mostly they had their wings closed, or rhythmically opened and closed them. |
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This was the easiest butterfly on this page for me to photograph. It flew past me on a trail at Trinidad's Point a Pierre Wildfowl Sanctuary, and landed on a leaf as you see it here. It then gave me plenty of opportunity to take as many shots as I wanted! If only all butterflies were this obliging! |
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