Brimstone - Citron

Photography Insects posted on Apr 21, 2012
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Picture taken in Habay-la-Neuve on March 23, 2012. Gonepteryx rhamni (known as the Common Brimstone) is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It lives in Europe, North Africa and Asia; across much of its range, it is the only species of its genus, and is therefore simply known locally as the brimstone. G. rhamni is one of the longest lived butterflies, living up to thirteen months, although most of this time is spent in hibernation. As it is often the first butterfly to be seen in the spring, sometimes as early as January when hibernating adults are awoken on a sunny day, there is a popular myth that it is this butterfly which gave us the word butterfly, a corruption of butter-coloured fly. Le Citron (Gonepteryx rhamni) est un insecte lépidoptère de la famille des Pieridae. Le Citron hiverne à l'automne puis vole à nouveau dès les premiers jours de soleil. C'est l'un des papillons à la plus grande longévité à l'état d'imago.On le voit dès le début du printemps, voltigeant partout où croissent les plantes (bourdaine, nerprun) dont se nourrissent les chenilles. Thank you for your comments on my previous upload : thumb_2321715.jpg "Orange Tip (female) – Aurore"

Comments (18)


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marybelgium

12:12PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

Superbe!

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Juliette.Gribnau

12:39PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

beauty

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PatGoltz

12:59PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

Excellent capture! These butterflies tend to flit around a lot, not willing to settle on anything so you can take their picture.

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jayfar

1:39PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

A really lovely capture Michel.

bebert

2:32PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

commun, mais toujours agreable à voir. belle lumiere, ce qui prouve que tu as plus de soleil que nous MDR

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Hendesse

2:44PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

Wonderful colors, light and fantastic details. Superb shot, Michel!

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kbrog

3:30PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

That would be a hard on to spot in the green leaves. ;) Great capture with the contrast on the old brown leaf! :)

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Faemike55

4:24PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

Very cool capture and interesting information

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cfulton

4:40PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

A wonderful contrast for this beauty. Thanks for the info, Clive

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erlandpil

5:34PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

Excellent capture! erland

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MrsRatbag

10:07PM | Sat, 21 April 2012

Excellent shot of this little beauty!

whaleman

2:48AM | Sun, 22 April 2012

Very pretty shades of color here!

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dixievb

8:03AM | Sun, 22 April 2012

Beautiful shot of a beautiful bug!

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X-PaX

11:19AM | Sun, 22 April 2012

Very nice capture.

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GiMi53

1:32PM | Sun, 22 April 2012

Thank you for your comments; my next upload : thumb_2322441.jpg "ChiffChaff"

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odie

12:30PM | Mon, 23 April 2012

What a beautiful shot. Love all the earthy colors and textures. Did you use a flash on this or was this existing light?

angora

1:16AM | Tue, 24 April 2012

a most stunning image!!! and great lighting!!!

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ia-du-lin

3:41PM | Fri, 27 April 2012

beautiful butterfly shot


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Photograph Details
F Numberf/11.0
MakeNIKON CORPORATION
ModelNIKON D300S
Shutter Speed10/5000
ISO Speed500
Focal Length500

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