White Butterfly, Pieris rapae.

Posted by Grahame (Mt Maunganui, New Zealand) on 4 February 2009 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

White Butterfly, Pieris rapae, Female.
The difference between the Male and Female is the number of spots on the fore wing.
The female have two while the male one.
Both have one spot on the hind wing.
As is often the case with me I have no idea as to what species the plant is.

Hi folks,
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Enjoy,
Grahame.

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Comments (7)

Philip from Joburg, South Africa

That butterfly blends so well with the plant excellent capture 10/10

4 Feb 2009 6:49am

@Philip: Thanks for that Philip !!

Marcah from United States

Well camouflaged. Well seen.

4 Feb 2009 12:37pm

@Marcah: Hi Marcah,
It does sit nicely with it's environment.

Marion from Liberty Township, United States

Grahame, a wonderful capture and colors! I love the bokeh and the composition. Very interesting plant and thanks for the butterfly details. I always love to learn new things :)

4 Feb 2009 1:45pm

@Marion: Hi Marion,
Nothing wrong with a bit more useless knowledge eh !
I specialize in it.

Marion from Liberty Township, United States

I forgot to mention the beautiful framing you applied. Great job there! How did you do that? I have a theory... :)

4 Feb 2009 1:48pm

@Marion: HiMarion,
The frame is an action I picked up on my travels round the web, thanks to the un known/remembered author !
Basically it creates a copy of the image, creates a selection 6px inside the image, delete, apply a 1px white border then applies Gaussian blur and opacity to the remaining part of the image.
If you use PS or Elements give me a yell at my email and I'll send it on to you.
:)
Same of course for anyone else that wants to play with it.