Wild Animal Park’s Butterfly Jungle
April 20, 2010 by Rob Hurlbut
Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonia)
The Wild Animal Park, in Encondito, CA just wrapped up a special “Butterfly Jungle” exhibit this past weekend. The entire park, including the butterfly jungle was a great experience and took up an entire Saturday, as well as over 5GB of space on my Nikon D5000′s memory card. After spending a few days sorting and selecting my favorite pics of that day, I found that I had too many keepers for one blog post. I’m going to split that exhausting day into three posts: Butterflies, birds and mammals, in that order.
This post will feature butterflies. These pics were snapped at 1/500th or faster, and most were at full 450mm zoom. That means the ISO was pretty high (1600-3200 ISO) so there is a bit of noise. Since I know next to nothing about what makes a butterfly tick, I won’t sully their wonderful colors or elegant, nectar slurping lives with any more of my words except to say, “Enjoy.”
Orange-Barred Tiger (Dryadula phaetusa)
Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes)
Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)
Paper Kite Butterfly (Idea leuconoe)”
Malachite (Siproeta stelenes) & Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides)
Postman (Heliconius melpomene)
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Some nice shots here of the butterfly jungle. On the ones where you've used max zoom, how far away were you? 1-2metres?