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Yeah, I meant the birding term, Felix. So what word do you use then? You may call it an awful term (and I'm not gonna argue) but it works for me!

I look forward to seeing your butterfly video footage this coming summer then, Nick.

Susie wrote:I look forward to seeing your butterfly video footage this coming summer then, Nick.

There'll certainly be no Oscars

Butterflies in their habitat, Both Jack and Guy have entered with sort of shot before, and done well in the voting.

But the wording needs to be right, "A butterfly in its habitat or environment" is just going to end up with a load of messy pictures, with a butterfly hid amongst a load of grass.
But "A butterfly within a landscape" could be interesting. I don't know how many of you have read Richard Tratt's book "Butterfly Landscapes", inspiring.

Regards Gruditch

How about "A unique look at a butterfly"? Showing something you wouldn't normally see when you look at/watch or photograph a butterfly, get people to be creative about their photography to show of something different about their subject.

How about 'Butterflies as Prey'...whether grabbed by a crab spider, in a flycatchers beak, in a web (yawn...) or in a bats mouth (wow!) Both species ought to be identifiable though. Maybe extend the rules to include caterpillars or pupa (was it Guy who recently posted the amazing pic of a Forest Bug with its proboscis deep within a WLH pupa? Winner!)

Which leads on to the concept of "predation" which might include, along with the crab spiders, the various parasitic wasps and flies that are inextricably entwined with the life cycles of butterflies.

Just a thought...

Dave

Butterflies as prey certainly sounds good to me! There are some really nasty little parasitoids out there

What about 'Butterfly Abbs.' ? Felix has just fainted. However i do have just the one.

I’ve just had a brilliant idea:

There could be a category where the requirement is a photograph that shows a pin sharp head and thorax but it being acceptable that the furthest (or nearest) antenna is out of focus as this is unavoidable to ensure a thoroughly blurred non-distracting background

Jack

Depends on the species Jack, an Orange-tips for example nearly always keep their antenna together, where as a Pearl Bordered Fritillary, even at rest has its antenna in a distinct V, and stop stirring.

Regards Gruditch

There could be a category where the requirement is a photograph that shows a pin sharp head and thorax but it being acceptable that the furthest (ore nearest) antenna is out of focus as this is unavoidable to ensure a thoroughly blurred non-distracting background

Well this is fine, but personally i do like sharp antennae, which means that small apertures and carefully selected backgrounds (as distant as possible) are in order. I'm not gonna vote for blurry sensors.

...and stop stirring.

Me? As if I would. Tut,tut.

Jack

Jack Harrison wrote:

...and stop stirring.

Me? As if I would. Tut,tut.
Jack

....and a long history it is too... .....eh, Jack?

Some diversionary tactics needed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/new ... 25811.html

If you can read that without developing an itch somewhere on your body, then you are a better person than I am.

Jack

Butterfly abs? I think butterfly abberations would be a good idea too.

de gustibus non est disputandum

I was telling my dear wife about this phrase. She is well edecated, like, know what I meen? So I have just been put in my place for being so igerant, Suzie is currently doing an MA (distance learning) so has lots of reference books. She has just weighed her "bible" on the kitchen scales (at least she know where she is supposed to be) and it weighed a massive 2 kilograms plus.

More big words courtesy Suzie: didactic, heuristic, viagra.

Jack

Hey, if the topic's going to be 'Butterfly Tattoos' I reckon my girlfriend is in with a winning chance - anatomically correct Glanville Frit on her chest. C'mon guys, you KNOW you want to see THAT!!

Gibster wrote:Hey, if the topic's going to be 'Butterfly Tattoos' I reckon my girlfriend is in with a winning chance - anatomically correct Glanville Frit on her chest. C'mon guys, you KNOW you want to see THAT!!

Take pity and make an old man happy.... Pleeeeese!

Hey, if the topic's going to be 'Butterfly Tattoos' I reckon my girlfriend is in with a winning chance - anatomically correct Glanville Frit on her chest. C'mon guys, you KNOW you want to see THAT!!

Does it appear to fly, when she runs?