Bluebottle - shot with phone

[Blue Jay]

I went for a walk on Sunday and encountered many Bluebottles, Lesser Jays and also 2 Tailed Jays. Huge pity that I did not bring my camera along with me as there were a few great opportunities to photograph the Bluebottle and Lesser Jay, and a glorious chance for the Tailed Jay as there was one that was just resting for a long time on a fern beside the trail.

It was quite surprising for me that in just one trip I've encountered so many Graphiums, and not just that, it was so many individuals of 3 of the species also. It's great to see the butterfly activity in Singapore improving a lot over the last few weeks after a few years of inactivity, and this trip is even more encouraging.

Also, I noticed in the last few years that the Common Faun population has declined a lot. When I started shooting butterflies it was everywhere in the forests, then it started declining in the next few years and I hardly, if ever, saw it. I finally managed to see a pair of them chasing each other yesterday, hopefully now their population returns to how it was before.

I haven't been shooting for very long so some of my observations may be wrong, but I'm very happy to see the butterfly activity on the up again

I'm quite disappointed though that this forum has become very quiet and inactive...it's a very good platform for sharing of butterfly knowledge and photos, and also as a place where such things of our group are collected and it becomes a repository of everything that has been shared and posted here.

Anyways, I took some shots of the Bluebottle with my phone. I'm quite satisfied with the quality of it considering it came from a phone camera


Common Bluebottle (Graphium sarpedon luctatius) by Graphium evemon, on Flickr

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[Alfa]

Nice one, Brian
Yes, we should share more here

[Angiud]

Great picture!

[Blue Jay]

Great picture!

thanks Antonio!

[Commander]

I'm quite disappointed though that this forum has become very quiet and inactive...it's a very good platform for sharing of butterfly knowledge and photos, and also as a place where such things of our group are collected and it becomes a repository of everything that has been shared and posted here.

Yup, it's a debate that we've been having for some time now, especially when the more "convenient" social media platforms like FaceBook are competing for our time and attention. So, please start making the forums more "noisy" and "active" by posting more here!

[Blue Jay]

Yup, it's a debate that we've been having for some time now, especially when the more "convenient" social media platforms like FaceBook are competing for our time and attention. So, please start making the forums more "noisy" and "active" by posting more here!

yup i will. As long as there are photos to post i'll post here