| Julia-shaped butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Here it is, 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. |
| 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. |  |
| 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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