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Meadow Brown


Meadow Brown
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Copyright: Pawel Chmur (cloud) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 103 W: 57 N: 182] (1717)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-07-01
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon 350D, Canon 70-200 f 2.8 L USM, Hoya HMC Super UV(0)
Exposure: f/8, 1/100 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-07-02 13:51
Viewed: 294
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Meadow Brown - male.
The Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) is a butterfly found in European meadows, where its larvae feed on grasses.
Similar species are Gatekeeper (which prefers to rest with its wings open) and Small Heath (which is smaller).
There is marked sexual dimorphism in this species. Males are less colorful, with smaller eyespots and much reduced orange areas on the upper forewings. They are also much more active and range far about, while females fly less and often may not away from the area where they grew up.
A variable number of smaller eyespots are usually found on the hindwing undersides. These may number up to 12 per individual butterfly, with up to 6 on each wing. The factors that govern polymorphism in this trait are not resolved, although a number of theories have been proposed (Stevens 2005). On the other hand, the evolutionary significance of the upperwing eyespots is more obvious: The more active males have a markedly more cryptic upperside pattern, whereas the females have more often opportunity to present their eyespots in a sudden display of colors and patterns that presumably make neophobic predators hesitate so that the butterfly has better chances of escaping.
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  • siggi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 198 W: 2 N: 514] (1936)
  • [2008-07-02 13:55]

Hello Pawel,
This is a very pleasing image, and one that had to be hard to get keeping focus and enough DOF that close to a butterfly! Well done...
Regards Siggi

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2806 W: 75 N: 7857] (26309)
  • [2008-07-02 22:08]

Czesc Pawel!

Pieknie sfotografowany motyl. Bardzo ladne swiatlo i kolory, kompozycja w lisciach, szczegoly. Jedyne co troche przeszkadza, to rozmyty lisc na pierwszym planie z lewej.

Hello Pawel,

Sorry no time. Only marking.
Mariki

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  • GaryT Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 52 W: 1 N: 100] (590)
  • [2008-07-03 7:11]

Good lighting makes all the difference in the world, and this one certainly has it!

  • Great 
  • Graal Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 788 W: 31 N: 20] (4998)
  • [2008-07-03 10:42]

Czesc,
bdb ostrosc, ladnie motyl pokazany. Fajne kolory rowniez. Porzadna robota.
Pozdr. Al.

Hello Pavel,

Good composition and beautiful colors and detail from this difficult to get butterfly.

Gert

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1901 W: 4 N: 5175] (19712)
  • [2008-07-03 11:21]

Hi Pawel. You to have a Meadow Brown. You have captured this one with fine detail and natural colours. a very nice side on view. well done TFS.
Nick..

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