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[misterx]

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[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Oooh pretty! I love butterflies, especially the black ones with metallic wing powder.

Would that one perhaps be a female Spicebush Swallowtail?

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I looked it up, and you're right. :)

Cool name for a butterfly.

[natf.livejournal.com]

"wing powder"

scales?

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Scales, perhaps...it comes off (if you touch them) looking like a fine metallic powder.

[natf.livejournal.com]

Believe me. It is very small scales. ;-)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

OK, I believe you. :-) I've been around butterflies but really don't know much about the details of their anatomy, and their wings just completely dumbfound me with their microscopic complexities...and of course their beauty and fragility.

[lilith17.livejournal.com]

That's pretty :)

[misterx.livejournal.com]

It landed on the underside of the tent yesterday, was there almost the entire day.

[natf.livejournal.com]

I was wondering how you got the backlight and hoping that it was not dead and on your scanner or lightbox ;-)
Beautiful.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

no, quite lively. had a hard time getting the pic, it kept moving.

[darkmoonrose.livejournal.com]

Simply gorgeous :)

[yertelsbitch.livejournal.com]

so pretty... you did a great job picking up the powdered wings.

I miss butterflies... we don't see them much in the desert