CACYREUS MARSHALLI
You'll see only one butterfly in this post. I photographed it a few hours ago in my garden.
The name of the species is Cacyreus marshalli, the family is Lycaenidae, and there is something very peculiar about this small, relatively inconspicuous butterfly. It's native to South Africa ... but my garden is very far from there. This species was accidentally brought to Europe in 1978. In southern Europe, specifically the coastal areas along the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian seas, it started being recorded in the late 90s.
I remember seeing it for the first time a decade or so ago, always in my garden. I didn't know anything about this species back then, but I was sure that I hadn't seen a butterfly like that before. This summer I keep seeing a nice little group of four to six Cacyreus marshalli butterflies around the tomato plants in my garden. The dry leaf on which the butterfly is posing in this and all the other shots in today's post belongs to one of my tomato plants that is getting closer each day to the end of its life cycle. In the following photograph ...
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... I used the flash to get a shot that lacks the atmosphere which only the ambient light can provide but it shows better the scales on the wings and other minuscule details. You can enlarge the picture by clicking on it.
Since mid-August, I've been visiting my garden regularly with the macro lens always at hand, in search of insects and details for a series of posts titled "Summer In My Garden." I prepared plenty of material already and I'll start publishing that project in a week or two from now. That means that Cacyreus marshalli butterflies will reappear here on Hive as part of much longer, more elaborate posts. Today I had plenty of stuff to do, besides photographing, so I wasn't able to create something better than what you can see and read here. You can consider this as some kind of teaser for the "Summer In My Garden" series. Maybe It makes more sense that way.
While I was photographing the butterfly and some other stuff in the garden ...
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... the cat called Palchich was resting in the shade provided by the cherry tree. The large leaves all around the cat belong to the zucchini plants.
The following link will take you to the site with more information about the protagonist of this post. I found some stuff about it there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium_bronze
AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK
a very beautiful butterfly photography, the macro is perfect to look at. @borjan
Whenever I look at them, I realized how beautiful the nature is. How such a creature could be so much pretty. Their colors are very attractive and lovely.
very beautiful butterfly.
That cat is very big🤣🤣, I was startled for a moment. The shots are nice by the way.
The shape and color of this butterfly looks very beautiful and the front of the butterfly looks like there are fine feathers decorating its face
A beautiful creature. It has a nice design on its wings, quite different from the butterflies I've seen so far.
What a beautiful butterfly ... and gorgeous teaser!
The butterfly looks so pretty. Excellent photography as always.
Now isn't that just remarkable. Lol, that's a word I've used often lately. That being said, I can seem to find enough words to describe the wonders I've seen as of late. Awesome pics my good friend. Palchich looks quite comfortable with the camera haha.
For this nocturnal butterfly, being in partial shade is quite comfortable, because twilight, for it, is the period of the beginning of movement, or vice versa, the beginning of rest... I always liked the second :)
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Beautiful photography work you really have here
When I used to own Cats, they used to love chasing after Butterflies and Moths. However, Any cat will always find the sunniest spot in any garden to sleep.
Cats are so lazy !LOL 😻 Have a nice day!
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Your photographs are always lit🔥
The sight of butterflies always leaves me in awe wondering how beautiful nature is
The cat was really having a good time under the shade😁
As usual, I am always entertained by the pictures you show and I like the photo of butterfly
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The wings are almost transparent, haven't quite seen one like that or even somewhat similar... We have a lot of colorfull butterflies here in South Africa.
Nice pictures though!
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I like the design of the butterfly, and the clarity of the photos.
Aww, this butterfly is super cute, I love the colour shades that nature has blessed it with.
Palchich just gave the best pose for the camera, oh I love her already!
I always look forward to your pictures because they always remind me of the beauty of nature.
Beautiful pictures as usual 😍 i always wonder how you know the name of plants and creatures... it's nice 🙂 have a nice weekend ahead 🙏
I search and find the names on the Internet. 😃 Have a great day.
Ohh... that's great 😃
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In our language, we call them "Titli" and kids always go after them to catch them. Sometimes they get success and sometimes they become the reason for their death.
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It really looks very beautiful and you have photographed it very well and it looks very clear.
The leaf your butterfly is perched on looks like a paper elephant head.