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Common Blue Bottle


Common Blue Bottle
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Copyright: kv vral (vral) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 55 W: 0 N: 146] (626)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-06-26
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon 40D DSLR, 18-55 Canon kit
Exposure: f/11, 1/84 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-06-29 23:12
Viewed: 254
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Hello Friends,

Sorry for the disappearance for some time….

This Common Blue Bottle was captured in Yercaud, a hill station in South India.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Graphium
Species: G. sarpedon


Graphium sarpedon, the common bluebottle, is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia, as well as parts of Australia. There are approximately 15 subspecies with differing geographical distributions.

Variously reported with wingspans between 55 and 75 mm, the common bluebottle has black upper wings and brown lower wings. Both fore and hind wings are marked by a central spot in the form of a blue or blue-green triangle, with apex pointing toward the body.
The common bluebottle is known for quick flight and rapid reactions. It is difficult to catch.
The common bluebottle is distributed throughout south and southeast Asia. Subspecies appear in India and Sri Lanka (G. s. sarpedon and teredon), China and Taiwan (G. s. semifasciatus and connectens), Japan (G. s. nipponum), Indonesia and the Solomon Islands, New Guinea (G. s. messogis), and Australia (G. s. choredon). In India it occurs in Southern India in the Western Ghats and in the Himalayas from Kashmir in the west to Myanmar in the east.


For ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Bluebottle


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Beautiful colors

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Hi KV,
I think its time for you to go for a good macro lens (canon 60 mm or canon 100 mm). You are capture such lovely shots with a kit lens. You can much better with a macro lens I suppose. Very good details and a lovely composition. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Stunningly beautiful butterfly, the colours are just about perfect, interesting and enjoyable POV... great lighting as well...

  • Great 
  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 818 W: 4 N: 2026] (9534)
  • [2008-07-01 1:45]

Hello Vral, Lovely and nice shot. It is doing some sort of mud puddling and you have captured it very nicely. Ganesh

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