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After a large Eucalyptus Mannifera tree has been removed from my garden several weeks ago I finally decided to plant something else in that ... -
In my very first post on this blog I have shown so called Pink Bellied Moth (Oenochroma vinaria). It is fairly common in native gardens as t... -
Here it is, one of my latest caterpillars; I have no idea what will grow out of it... It is feeding on eucalyptus leaves. Looks a bit trans... -
One more photo of the same wasp as shown recently (seen here on the top of my pen). It is female, judging from white fragments in the middl... -
So, lets continue with the horror stories of butterflies ending their short lives in dramatic circumstancies... How about butterflies lured... -
Common name: Pink Bellied Moth (I will call her Penelope.) The interesting detail in this photo is the pheromone gland at the end of her b... -
About 1 month ago or so I have found a small pupa hanging on a silk thread in my garden under the rim of a plastic gardening pot. I assumed ... -
About one week ago I had a visitor, so called Magpie moth (Nyctemera) , it is called "magpie" because of black and white wings, he... -
It is this time of year again, the deadline for submitting one's tax return is approaching, which reminds me the old saying along the li...
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Butterflies don't pay taxes, but...
It is this time of year again, the deadline for submitting one's tax return is approaching, which reminds me the old saying along the lines: "There are only two things certain in our lives, these are a.) having to pay taxes and b.) our death..."
Butterflies do not pay taxes, but they are certainly not spared from death. When visiting Cape Hillsborough during my last holiday, on a single day (29th of July 2010) I photographed several various ways in which death can meet a single species of butterfly, Evening Brown (Melanitis leda)...
Be it by drowning, getting stuck in the spider web or being consumed by other insects, perhaps by green ants (as shown in the photo above), in one form or another, death will certainly come...
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