Eronia cleodora
The Vine-leaf Vagrant is a medium-sized butterfly with a wingspan of around 6cm (males are usually a bit smaller than the females). They fly fast and wandering, often settling quickly on flowers as they go. These beautiful butterflies may be seen year-round, though their numbers usually peak in spring and late summer. Their larvae feed on the leaves of the caper-bushes (Capparis).
In South Africa the Vine-leaf Vagrant is found in forests and moist savannas from the Eastern Cape coast, through Kwazulu-Natal and into the Lowveld and escarpment of Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
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DeWetsWild 
Lovely – and I enjoyed the flowers too!
Seems the Pride-of-De-Kaap gets the attention of more than just butterflies!
Indeed! 🙂
Druiweblaarswerwer … nou hoekom is hulle dan nie in die Kaapse wingerde nie 🤔? Jy’t ‘n paar mooi foto’s van die skoenlapper hier!
Die Afrikaanse name vir baie van ons skoenlappers is amper net so mooi as die skoenlapper self. In hierdie geval maar net n direkte oorvertaling uit Engels, en nogtans klink dit soos iets uit n gedig!
Ek geniet dit altyd wanneer jy die Afrikaanse name ook gee … soms is dit sommer lekker beskrywend!
Pragtige skoenlappers!
Natuurlik waar van alle skoenlappers, Aletta, maar ek dink ook hierdie een staan nog meer uit!
Much more than this pretty butterfly, the Bauhinia galpinii (Pride-of-de-Kaap / Vlam-van-die-vlakte) it is sitting on took me ‘home’ to the De Kaap Valley which is part of my childhood stomping ground! What a pleasant surprise for me 🙂 🙂
I already knew when I took the photo’s that you’d be excited about the flowers too, Anne!
You are getting to know me well 🙂
Much better than I know most in my extended family!
😀
So lovely and unique ones! 🙂
Very true of most butterflies!
Another lovely one. I like its black wing edging.
Thank you, Janet!
Pretty little one! The wings are yellow on the inside and white on the outside? Better camouflage?
The inside of the wings are black-and-white, and the outside has the yellow, black and white. Really is to great effect both when the butterfly is fluttering around and when it is sitting still (which they only seem to do for a fraction of a second), for at a quick glance it seems quite like a falling leaf.
I absolutely love the last photo. Amazing shot! Such a beautiful butterfly!
Thank you very much! Photographing butterflies in flight gives me great pleasure, even if only one in a thousand is one worth showing here.
I am still trying to perfect in flight! Definitely kuddos to you!
You are very kind! Be thankful I didn’t share the hundreds of flops too! 😉
It’s amazing how many photos you have to take to get a perfect one!