Moth or Butterfly

by Ginny Schmidt

Title

Moth or Butterfly

Artist

Ginny Schmidt

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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Too bad titles cannot use punctuation or I would have added a question mark. I really don't know whether this is a butterfly or a moth. I just happened to be in my back yard yesterday morning when this little guy fluttered onto my Cuban Buttercup bush. I had the camera in my hand and did not even aim - just stuck my arm out, pointed in the general direction, and got off three snaps of the shutter before he flitted off - I had no idea even if he was in the frame, so imagine how delighted I was to find this when I uploaded the images. This is pretty much "as is" except that I did have to clone out the toe of my white sneaker glaring on the left of the shot.

After I finished watering my plants, this fellow was still hopping back and forth between flowers and tall grass, and I would have liked to catch another shot, but he saw me coming and flew away before I could get close enough - so this image pretty much was a surprise for both of us!

Edit: So I googled butterflies and Florida and found that this indeed IS a butterfly, inertia jatrophae, also known as white peacock.

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August 30th, 2013

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