Baby butterfly? or Widthly Challenge adult.....

08/25/2005 09:16:57 PM · #1

uh, yea.. so are there any baby butterflies? i mean i know they are first cocooned up, so i assume they dont actually grow. just different sizes for different species? bah who knows.. now tell me...
is this shot over saturated? any comments are deman... err welcome. =)

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08/26/2005 09:31:52 AM · #2

BUMPPPPPPPPP

liv4him330

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08/26/2005 09:36:00 AM · #3

I am not really a bug person so donâ��t know about that but about the photo, the angle is bad you only see the one wing so it looks deformed. The saturation looks fine but the background is totally distracting a tighter crop and different angle would really help you here.

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08/26/2005 09:39:04 AM · #4

thank you =)

scalvert

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08/26/2005 09:44:10 AM · #5

The butterfly looks similar to a Painted Lady, but I don't think that's what it is (yours is missing the characteristic white spots on the wings). Small butterflies aren't "babies" (those would be caterpillars), but I'm sure there are large and small adults (like any other animal), and certainly size variations between species.

Bear_Music

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08/26/2005 09:47:00 AM · #6

Baby butterflies are caterpillars. Butterflies emerge from their cocoons fully grown and do not increase size for the rest of their lifespan. But as Shannon points out, there are all different sizes of butterflies.

R.

SJCarter

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08/26/2005 10:30:11 AM · #7

Left comment.

nsbca7

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08/26/2005 11:38:59 AM · #8

The (full grown) butterfly is in the Cresent family and looks really close to the Phaon Cresent, but I'm fairly sure that it not a Phaon. I will try to do an ID for you later.

eschelar

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08/26/2005 11:58:08 AM · #9

Further to Bear's info, I would add that it might be informative for you if you did a quick google on caterpillar and butterfly life cycles. You will find that once they emerge as adults not only do they not grow, their wings take several hours (sometimes 8-12 or more) to unfurl (which is a really neat time to photograph them) depending on weather conditions and afterwards typically have ridiculously short lifespans, many in the 24-48 hour range, while others get as much as a week. I haven't studied it, so I can hardly say anything detailed, but I found it interesting when I visited a Butterfly World back when I lived in Canada. I'd love to go back with a DSLR.

There have been more than a few guys who have devoted their life to studying caterpillars, you can read some fascinating stuff by googling "processionary caterpillar". I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote about them, but he's got some seriously wild stories to tell.

Imagine what it must be like to spend a few months walking around as a baby, then taking a nap for a week, only to come out ready for mating and having to wait upwards of a third to a sixth of your remaining lifespan just so you can get mobile... If butterflies could talk, we'd probably all be turned off because of their ridiculously raunchy minds :). We most likely would not be referring to them as babies.