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Here is another new-to-me visitor to my garden – a Dingy Swallowtail Butterfly. At first, I thought it was a grapevine moth but only when it finally settled did I realize my error. This lone butterfly is a large one, so I was somewhat surprised to discover it is also called a Small Citrus Butterfly. It constantly fluttered its wings and zoomed about. But, I eventually got a few images on the Nikon D3000.

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Thanks for looking.

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Butterflies & Moths

Dingy Swallowtail

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Also called the Correa Brown, this is the orange butterfly I mentioned a few posts ago – hard to find one settled enough for a photograph. I had given up chasing one about, when this one landed right by my feet, staying long enough to get a few shots. In this first one, I love how the light catches the wing edges during a rare spread.

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I can’t decide if I prefer Correa Brown over its other name – Orange Alpine Xenica.

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Butterflies & Moths

Oreixenica correae: Orange Alpine Xenica

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Nikon D3000, on guide or auto. Cropped, scaled, and sharpened with GIMP.

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Here is the featured photo, again. It’s so good because the bee landed in the same instant as I got the lavender in focus. Sheer luck!

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Now, this last one was taken yesterday, during a stint of trying out the manual focus for the first time – I actually managed to turn the ring and click the shutter before it flew off. Not easy. The sunlight washed out the blue a bit.

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As you can see there, I’ve experimented with adding a watermark.

I have five or six of these blue-banded bees flying about at the moment, of varying sizes. In the right light, one has dark aqua stripes.

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Bees & Bugs, Butterflies & Moths

Blue-banded bee

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