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21-AUG-2010 C Breton

Gulf Fritillary

Texas Canyon, Dragoon, Arizona

A little more than a mile from my home is an area where Passion Vine grows, which is the host plant
for the Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar. I walk over there frequently looking for the Passion Flower;
however, I have yet to see one in bloom there. On the other hand, I have been blessed to see many
Gult Fritillary caterpillars and butterflies! On this day, I stood very still right in the middle of
a dense area of these and was thrilled that they flew around me and landed close by repeatedly.
What a marvelous experience that was!



Canon EOS 30D ,Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
1/800s f/10.0 at 300.0mm iso282 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Jeanne Dammarell08-Apr-2013 22:20
This is a stunning butterfly!
PauloCGama06-Sep-2010 16:24
Beautiful job!!
January Grey06-Sep-2010 06:13
You captured them beautifully, Carol! Well done!!
Bartosz Kotulski05-Sep-2010 19:52
wow. what a close up. voted
Tom Munson05-Sep-2010 16:29
Terrific series, Carol! Nice work!
Guest 05-Sep-2010 15:52
Superb capture, beautiful butterflies! V
Jim Coffman05-Sep-2010 14:53
Very lovely capture,Carol!
Bryan Murahashi05-Sep-2010 14:40
Wonderful captures, Carol.
Walter Otto Koenig05-Sep-2010 14:07
Three wonderful captures Carol. So cool that you can find all these.
Bob White05-Sep-2010 11:46
Another wonderful set of images
Colin Storey05-Sep-2010 09:07
Fantastic set of images, stunning work.
Stephanie05-Sep-2010 08:24
Pretty capture of images Carol! :)
marko gregoric05-Sep-2010 08:05
Very good capture. V.
Guest 05-Sep-2010 07:19
Fabulous captures Carol.. love the patterns on the second one. V
Simon Chandler05-Sep-2010 07:08
Beautiful composition. v
NealyBob05-Sep-2010 06:13
Wow! How lucky can you get! I'll bet you didn't know which one to shoot! Oh,by the way great series Carol~!
Sam Rua05-Sep-2010 05:52
Nice captures, Carol. These usually wipe out our passion vines, but we'd rather have the butterflies than the flowers!
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