Over here in my neck of the world, we have been experiencing an insect invasion over the past week. Now, my opinion on this invasion may be a little bit different had it been spiders, ants or mosquitoes, but luckily that insect that has been taking over is the butterfly. The Painted Lady Butterfly to be more specific. This little winged creatures have been all over the place of late, and last week I had one visit our from yard. It seems that they are visiting in greater numbers than usual due to some stronger than normal winds that have been pushing them down to our level during what would be their usual migration down to a warmer Southern climate for Winter. Garnering some strange looks from My Lovely Assistant, and possibly a couple of neighbours as well, I ended up laying face down on the lawn so that I could get some nice close-up shots of this particular little visitor while snacking on some of the wild flowers that were growing in the grass. The first photograph was taken at f/6.3, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 200mm and here are a few more photographs I took.
f/6.3, 1/16000sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
f/6.3, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 200mm
There are still several of them flying around out there at the moment, but they won't be around for much longer. Or, with the mid-July temperatures we are currently experiencing, maybe they just might decide that they like it here after all.
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