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Purple Mort Bleu – Eryphanis polyxena
The Eryphanis polyxena or Purple Mort Bleu, also known as the Bamboo Butterfly, is a relative of the Owl Butterfly and, like the Owl, is native to Central and South America.
It has a beautiful intricate pattern on the underside, which fades with age as it can live several months. Males are purple on the upperside, while females have a gray and brown pattern. The caterpillar feeds on bamboo, and both it and the chrysalis have an amazing resemblance to a dead bamboo leaf!
Featured in Its in the Detail on February 12/2011
Featured in CloseUps in Nature on February 10/2011
Featured in Amazing Wildlife on February 7/2011
Featured in Colour and Light on February 5/2011
My greatest passion in photography is to capture the wonderful Butterfly. I hope you will enjoy my photos of Butterflies as much I do to watch them and to catch their beauty with my photographs. My camera is a Canon EOS 350D with a Canon Close-Up lens 250D. Thank you so much for your visit, the kind comments, the great support and the Love for Butterflies!
Butterfly Kisses, Johanna
Comments
The birth of a butterfly, eclosion, is a wonderful, wonderful event to view.
Lovely image
j
Great camouflage, such delicate beauty.
Karen, thank you so much for the feature in your group, happy with it.
Johanna
– Lepidoptera
Thanks to All for the visit and great support!
Johanna
Ray, thank you so much for the feature, such a honor!
Johanna
– Lepidoptera
very beautiful capture!
Wonderful work! Congratulations on your feature :-)
Gemma, Thank you so much for the feature, such a honor!
Johanna
– Lepidoptera
Thank you All so much for the wonderful support!
Johanna