Peacock from caterpiller to butterfly

[Steve Light]

A few pictures I took from some Peacocks I bred in captivity, I used to do this as a child & started up again to show the kids who really enjoy it as well. I was even lucky enough to catch caterpiller to pupa, I just missed pupa to butterfly unfortunatly.
I hope you enjoy the pictures, I also will have a few Comma from egg right through a bit later this month/early next month.

Steve

[Dave McCormick]

Wow Steve, that was awesome seeing that, nice to see the lifecycle like that been trying to do that myself, but not got the whole lifecycle of a butterfly yet.

[Steve Light]

Thanks Dave, it was really good to see, I was pleased to catch it on camera. The kids were interested to see it as well, last year my daughter took some caterpillers into school to show as well which was nice.
I have a couple of Comma's that I hope to capture the same results of, I have this from egg this time though, although it was hard to capture the egg on my camera

[eccles]

The patience of some of UKB's members is amazing. Thanks for sharing these, Steve.

[Ruth Mac]

I'm a new member - just joined yesterday because I had to check out the butterflies I'd been seeing this week. Yesterday, out the back of my office in the centre of Aberdeen, there were up to six Peacocks feasting on a very shabby Buddleia. By the time I got the opportunity to try and capture them with my phone camera, it had got quite cool and there was only one. It too fluttered off before I could use the camera. They were most beautiful and despite my 50 years, I'd never seen one before. I love this forum and will keep coming back.

Ruth

[Pete Eeles]

Welcome Ruth - enthusiasm is always welcome around here

Cheers,

- Pete