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Peleides Blue Morpho
The Peleides Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides) is an iridescent tropical butterfly found in Mexico, Central America, northern South America, Paraguay, and Trinidad.
The brilliant blue color in the butterfly’s wings is caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings. It uses this to frighten away predators, by flashing its wings rapidly. The wingspan of the Blue Morpho butterfly ranges from 7.5–20 cm (3.0–7.9 in). The entire Blue Morpho Butterfly lifecycle, from egg to adult is only 115 days.
The Blue Morpho Butterfly drinks the juices from rotting fruits for food. Its favourites are mango, kiwi, and lychee.
Source: Wikipedia
Featured in Winged Insects on February 19/2012
Featured in Amazing Wildlife Featuramara on January 8/2012
Featured in A Bugs Kingdom on December 27/2011
Featured in Extreme Closeups on December 17/2011
Featured in Closeups in Nature on December 15/2011
Thank you All for the visit and wonderful support, so very much appreciated.
Butterfly Kisses, Johanna
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
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Lovely colors and detail
great shot and detail
Presented perfectly – eye appealing and beautiful!!!………….Tony
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Hi Ray, thank you so much for the Fav and Feature in your wonderful group.
Johanna
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Perfect work,fantastic image!
Great detail in this lovely capture!
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SUPERB CAPTURE!
Hi Laruecherie, thank you so much for the feature in your wonderful group.
Johanna
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Wildlife Featurama: Amazing Butterflies!
January 8, 2012
Hi Dee, thank you so much, so wonderful to be featured in this Wildlife Featurama.
Butterfly Kisses, Johanna
– Lepidoptera