Aside from dragonflies, one of the insects that I really want to take macro photos are butterflies. In a normal outdoors environment, I couldn't get pics of them cos they would fly away too quickly. I couldn't even get close to them lol. I have taken pics of skippy butterflies before (those that were really small) but those big colorful ones I haven't yet.
My recent trip to the butterfly dome gave me the opportunity to do so. And the best part is that they don't get scared easily since they're used to humans around them so I was able to take good photos of them.
Upon looking at closeups, I realized why some are afraid of butterflies. Like eew look at those really long straws in their mouths. 馃槀 Looks like a needle.
I can imagine that thing grabbing my head and sucking all the nutrients from me. Except they're actually beneficial for the environment haha.
Can you see those pollen from its mouth?
They are extremely pretty with the "black and white" colors. Almost like a drawing. The butterflies in this dome tho are mostly these.
They are trying to get in one flower at the same time. Geez, there's plenty of fish in the sea dude.
One of the "other-colored" butterflies that I saw lol. There's only like 3 of them there. :D
Their wings are damaged :/ They aren't gonna regrow, so sucks for them.
Time to sucky sucky.
I was able to get close to a "resting" butterfly. I just assume it was cos it wasn't moving and wasn't bothered of me getting that close. :p
Here's a cropped version of these just so you can see the details better. They're extremely "hairy" as you can see. XD
I wish I have seen more "variety" of colors. Maybe in other butterfly domes. :D