Thanks for the explanation.

This image was taken last November in central Cairo. The female is showing eggs but seemed more interesting in feeding than laying. Can anyone explain to a complete novice what is going on e.g. are the eggs being fertilised?. What I take to be the male is in the right hand top corner of the second i...

Thanks Denise. Now the search begins for a female

Thanks Alexander, you've made my day! I have confirmed that Junonia hierta is found in Egypt but is rare here. I stalked it for at least half an hour before I got a good shot and it was over 90 degrees in the sun!

Best regards

Jacqueline

The image was taken this afternoon in central Cairo. I saw the same species in the almost the identical spot last summer but I have seen it anywhere else in the country.

I would estimate the wing span to be a little over two inches.

Image was taken at the end of September in Busan, South Korea.

Thanks

Jacqueline

Apologies for the delay in replying. Guy, I'm sure you are right with Pelopidas jansonis. Everything fits including the habits they favour in S. Korea. :D Pete, you may say 'I keep you on your toes' but you know it's fun! But don't panic, I don't often travel to unknown territories and we don't have...

This pic was taken in the summer of 2006 in a botanical garden in Cairo.

I have lived in Egypt for some years and have never seen it before or since and have had no success in identified it.

The flower is about two centimetres in diametre.

Thanks

Jacqueline

I'm afraid this is another butterfly I saw in South Korea at the end of September.

Thanks

Jacqueline

In all I have at least a dozen pix of this species and having looked at a number of images on the web, I'm as certain as I can be that it is Zizeeria maha. I will be posting some other species I came across in Korea. Let's hope I'm as lucky with them. It's a great site which I only discovered yester...

I have just returned from a trip to South Korea and am finding difficult to find any information on the local butterflies.

There dozens of these small blues both in Seoul and the port of Busan where these images were taken. It is feeding on Melampodium paludosum.

Thanks

Jacqueline