#tiger longwing

[wfxue]

20180725_F0001: Tiger longwing butterfly by Wei-Feng Xue Via Flickr: - I think this butterfly feeding here is a Heliconius hecale originally from Mexico and South America. I event got the cool eye pattern.

[jzoom-photography]

Tiger Longwing (Heliconius hecale)

This on a leaf sitting butterfly has several names:Tiger Longwing, Golden Longwing, Hecale Longwing  or Golden Heliconian (Heliconius hecale) . It is a Heliconiid butterfly that occurs from Mexico to the Peruvian Amazon.

[celestialphotography]

Butterflies in black and white (2nd of 2)

Tiger Longwing butterfly, Heliconius hecale,The Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory, Key West, Florida

(More butterfly photos can be found on my side blog, celestialmacros.)

[celestialmacros]

Tiger Longwing, Heliconius hecale, with a lot of pollen on its proboscis, Butterfly and Nature Conservatory, Key West, Florida

[doctorcrane]

Hecale Longwing on Flickr.

[rushs]

Tiger Longwing

Flash, flitter, freeze. A butterfly's effect is of a strange kind. Spending my working day near by a botanical garden that houses a wide variety of them has brought out a different appreciation for these flittering creatures, which were usually observed during post-lunch walks. And if you spend a good enough time trying to capture them, you are bound to notice how they play with you. Enough to make you think they actually have a human-like perceptive nature. Interesting subjects these.

This was taken at the Chester Zoo's butterfly greenhouse.