Holly Blue Sigma 150 images

steveh · Post by **steveh** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:30 pm

Saw my first "resting" Holly blue this evening...shame the wind here made everything a butterfly could be sitting on would not be resting!!!!

Taken handheld standing on a chair with Sigma 150mm macro and its crazy tiny DOF...

A few others on my WWW bit below.

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:33 pm

Pritty nice. I had same problem with a common blue, wind blew it past me and it disappeared. Preserverence pays off. Keep trying. Its great when you see your butterfly of that kind in wild for the first time.

steveh · Post by **steveh** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:19 pm

Thanks Dave,
Secondly does anyone know why Holly blue butterflies like the bush it is resting on?I would like to know the name of the plant.
I dont know the name but it is an evergreen shrub with waxy leaves with occasional tiny white flowers which turn into black buds? also it stinks after it has rained???

I have seen holly blues resting on this plant shrub/hedge on many occasion in various places.
And in the photo above it had its proboscis out along the leaf.

Kind regards
Steve

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:03 pm

Don't know if this really helps, but I have seen holly blues stay near their foodplant which is either ivy or holly. Since where I see them there is a holly and a ivy bush side-by-side, I am not 100% sure.

steveh · Post by **steveh** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:45 pm

Thanks again,
There is a Holly bush nearby but I have NEVER seen one even land on it?
Just the shrub as described above?
One of a few new shots from today

Thanks again Dave

Others at my photo space
http://www.pbase.com/wild_england/holly_blue_gallery

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:50 pm

The holly blues I have seen DO land on the holly bush, but more higher up. Post a pic of the bush leaves and I might be able to tell you what it is.

Great clear pic!