Owl butterfly
134 creative works found
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Great Grey
by JamieP -
Owl butterfly taken at the Detroit zoo-this one landed on someones back
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Taken on someone’s hairy arm!! Featured in: “Butterflies, Skippers and Moths” / Featured in: “1:1 Macro Photography” Views: 3379 / Favs: 24 / Canon 20D with 100mm Macro Lens
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Caligo memnon – Owl butterflies, of which there are around 20 different species, are members of the genus Caligo, in the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae.
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Another Owl
by MackyTotally different light conditions and different butterfly to my first submission. Nice to experiment with different forms of light. Caligo memnon – Owl butterflies, of which there are around 20 different species, are members of the genus Caligo, in the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae
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Acrylic On Canvas Concept: Ophelia having some solitude, she’s meditating on what love is all about…love between lovers, between friends, between parents and children, between teacher and students, between owners and their pets and etc….the greatest love is when one is willing to lay down his/her life(others-seeking and not self-seeking) for another person whom he/she loves. While painting this, it also reminds me of a famous chinese love tale, “The Butterfly Lovers”....thus a pair of butterflies. It is a tragic tale about how a couple could only find their love bliss after they pass on and both became butterflies.I’m contented to have found my bliss :D View my other “Love Meditations” creations at my Zazzle store:
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This image was taken from Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
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Acrylic On Canvas Once,Ophelia had an unforgettable experience on a lush green mountaintop, she felt she was lovingly embraced by the beauty of the moutain there….it felt as if the trees and the clouds whispered into her heart wondrous secrets that few knew. Oh, how she longed for the day to come when she would be back there…to build her nest in the heart of the mountain :D / / / View other products of “Mountain Whispers” in my Zazzle store! /
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Acrylic On Canvas Ophelia, Phoebe and Mel floating freely in a realm of their wishes, where butterflies and little fishies fill the beautiful purple skies…where stars of dreams are within reach…only believe :D You can view and buy my other “Wish Upon A Star” creations from my Zazzle Gallery:
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Oil Pastel and Acrylic on old wood with slight digital enhancements Ophelia, puzzled by the radical transformation that had taken place overnight to this butterfly friend of hers, thought to herself, “She was in a white thread-like casing yesterday, how did all that happen so fast? There must be something magical about that case!” This is inspired by a book Hope For The Flowers by Trina Paulus. This is a cute and yet thought provoking story about two caterpillars who because they mistake the meaning of their urge to get high, get entangled climbing a horrible “caterpillar pillar”. And for two caterpillars, we all know, surrendering to the cocoon is the only way to finally fly. Hope For the Flowers is a book that celebrates HOPE. My fave lines from the book is “How does one become a butterfly?” She asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” We are all meant to be as beautiful and free like the butterflies, that’s our destiny…as we free ourselves to be who we really are…and together with our innate talents,we bring hope to the world around us, bringing change inevitably around us :D / You can view and buy my other “Metamorphosis” creations from my Zazzle Gallery:
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enjoy a whole year of patterns
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This calendar shows different animals with amazing colors, patterns and textures. They are all amazing, adorable or cute.
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Buckeye Butterfly enjoying a warm day in November.
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I love the beauty of these Buckeye Butterflies. Only God could create something this beautiful.
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Oil Pastel And Acrylic On Wood (With Minor Digital Enhancements) Ophelia wishes all of us a great new year in 2009 filled with hopes and promises, it’s time to usher in the new things in our life! This is an all-occasion card, for birthday greetings, party invitations, congratulations and of course new year greetings :D You can view and buy my other “The Old Has Gone, The New Has Come” creations from my Zazzle Gallery:
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March 30, 2009 / Callaway Gardens / Pine Mountain, Georgia Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15) / Aperture: f/5.6 / Focal Length: 330 mm / ISO Speed: 200 Featured work in First Things group.
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Dryads
by MoonSpiral -
I am away on vaca with limited internet cafe time. Please know that I Thank you for viewing or commenting here. Interesting Facts: / Butterflies in the genus Caligo are commonly called Owl butterflies, after their huge eyespots, which resemble owls’ eyes. There are about 20 species in the genus, found in the rainforests and secondary forests of Mexico, Central and South America. / Underwing and upperwing patternThe actual function of the eyespots remains controversial (Stevens 2005). In some butterflies, particularly Satyrinae (such as the Gatekeeper Butterfly and the Grayling), it has been shown that ocelli serve as a decoy, diverting bird attack away from the vulnerable body, and towards the outer part of the hindwings or the forewing tip. Owl butterflies have been observed with large chunks missing from their hindwings[citation needed]. On the other hand, decoy ocelli are almost always small and located near the margin of the wing, where the damage caused by a bird’s beak would interfere little with the butterfly flying and going about its life. The position and size of the owl butterflies’ ocelli makes them a decidedly suboptimal decoy, as they are far too close to the abdomen in resting position to ensure no substantial damage is inflicted by a bird snapping at them. / Caligo eurilochusThe underwing pattern is highly cryptic. Caligos typically rest on tree trunks and large branches, and at least to human observers, when seen from a distance, the eyespot and the surrounding dark area do not compromise their superb camouflage. As many birds are able to see in the ultraviolet, more research is needed to determine how the eyespot pattern is perceived by the actual predators. In any case, at fairly close range the most visible thing about a resting owl butterfly is certainly a dark patch containing a single “false eye”. / Owl butterflies are very large, and fly only a few metres at a time, so avian predators have little difficulty in following them to their settling place. However, the butterflies preferentially fly around dusk, when few avian predators are around (Freitas et al., 1995). Indeed, their main predators are apparently[citation needed] small lizards such as Anolis. It has been suggested[citation needed] that the hindwing underside pattern actually resembles the head of a large Hyla tree frog, which prey on Anolis. This theory remains to be tested. It is known that many small animals hesitate to go near patterns resembling eyes with a light-colored iris and a large pupil, which matches the appearance of the eyes of many predators that hunt by sight[citation needed]. Thus, it is conceivable that the eye pattern is a generalized form of automimicry that would buy the butterfly time to escape from an approaching predator. Nikon D60~18/55 / San Blas Mexico 09’
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WOODLAND MAGIC SERIES Pen and Ink on Cartridge (original has gold highlights) ORIGINAL SOLD AUGUST 2009 Laminate Print with Black Border….... / Black framed print …..... / This series is still in progress- Others in this series so far / Woodland Nymph / Dryad / Woodland Charm / Woodland Whisper / Woodland Queen / Woodland Princess
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A fun, seasonal collection of animals found in North America.
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