surprise in the garden ....

in Qurator2 years ago (edited)

Today i was happily surprised with the visit of a Papilio machaon / Koninginnenpage / common yellow swallowtail .
I had never seen one of these alive before, so i was and still am verry happy with this the butterfly is +/- 7 cm in diameter so it's a pretty big butterfly but very nervice and not that easy to get close too.

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and another surprise in the garden are these NFSW positioned hoverflies ;)

good thing that the cat was taking a nap.

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all images taken by me with my sony a7II + helios 44-2 + 16mm extension tube

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Wow! That is a spectacular butterfly! Despite how warm it has been since February, we don't have many butterflies. How disappointing!

Jinx looks merely royal laying up on the pillow. (which is really a cat bed, but, I am sticking to my story!)

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she pretends to be royal all the time , it's hard to be on her staff ;)
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Wow, what beautiful photographs.

thank you Jessica

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