Whenever we get a chance to explore South Africa’s wild places I am amazed at the variety and number of butterflies that are on show. This certainly was the case again when we visited the iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park in March this year.
African Veined White
African Clouded Yellow
African Common White
African Migrant
Ant-heap White
Ant-heap Whites
Ant-heap White
Banded Gold Tip
Banded Gold Tip
Brown Commodore, aka Brown Pansy
Brown Commodore, aka Brown Pansy
Brown-veined White
Buquet’s Vagrant
Clouded Mother-of-Pearl
Common Black-eye
Common Bush Brown
Common Bush Brown
Common Diadem
Common Dotted Border
Common Mother-of-Pearl
Dusky Acraea
Dusky Copper
Dwarf Blue – South Africa’s smallest butterfly
Green-banded Swallowtail
Female Mocker Swallowtail butterfly female
Natal Acraea
Natal Acraea butterfly
Novice butterfly (photo by Joubert)
Painted Lady
Painted Lady
Pearl Emperor
Pied Piper
Scarlet Tip butterfly
Small Orange Tip
Smokey Orange Tip
Soldier Pansy
Spotted Pentila
Sulphur Orange Tip
Sulphur Orange Tip
Sulphur Orange Tip
Tailed Black-eye Butterfly
Tailed Black-eye Butterfly
Veined Tip butterfly
Vine-leaf Vagrant
Vine-leaf Vagrant
Vine-leaf Vagrant
Zebra White
Zebra White
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Autumn seems to be the best time for butterflies. You must have spent ages getting such lovely photos – and probably spent a bit of time identifying them too? I am very impressed by both!
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Thank you very much, Carol. Thankfully I am getting better at identifying which families they belong to, if not the species, and spending less time on identifying them than I used to. I am probably still getting a few wrong! Chasing butterflies with my camera is great fun, though I saw it puzzling a few other visitors who crossed paths with me in both Parks.
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🙂🦋
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Sjoe, sommige van hierdie skoenlappers lyk amper nes die blare en blommetjies – goeie kammoflering! Dis wonderlik dat julle so ‘n groot verskeidenheid kon afneem.
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Die Noordkus met sy tropiese klimaat en welige plantegroei onderhou van ons mooiste en meeste skoenlappers. ń Wonderwêreld!
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I used to catch butterflies! That comes from parents who wouldn’t let me have a dog when I was a little kid. LOL!
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Chasing butterflies was lots of fun when I was growing up too, Susie. Now I still do it, just with a camera instead of a net. 😀
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Daar is ‘n groot verskeidenheid van vorms en kleure ! pragtige foto’s!
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Beautiful
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Agreed 100%, Gavin. Thanks.
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What an amazing variety of butterflies in one location! And you put them in alphabetical order!
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Kwazulu-Natal’s subtropical climate must be to thank for the great diversity, Don. As for the alphabetical arrangement, that’s because I labelled them before uploading and the laptop did the rest. 😀
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Lovely. I rarely see anything other than cabbage whites, but I saw a couple of peacock butterflies on Saturday, or the same one twice
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The peacock butterfly is a stunning beauty!
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It is, alas no photos
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Now you are just being greedy!
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Have you ever considered coming for a visit, Brian? We have almost 700 kinds of butterflies here.
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Tempting, very tempting!
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I do love butterflies so this was a feast.
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Gave me great fun chasing them around!
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I bet!
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Dis omtrent n lekker verkeidenheid van skoenlappers. Wys jou die klimaat is perfek vir hulle gewees.
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Die amper tropiese klimaat van Noord Natal akkodeer goed met my ook hierdie tyd van die jaar 😉
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Dis die tyd van die jaar wat ons ook altyd gegaan het.
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Wow! So many, and very colorful too!
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Agreed, Hien!
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