Butterfly Series: Monarch and Plain Cupid Butterflies

It has been always fancy involving with nature where a lot of insects and other beautiful creatures live around. So my today's post goes to butterfly, Monarch butterfly and Cupid butterfly, both of them have different beauties and characteristics.

Monarch Butterfly

Monarch butterfly is also called milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae). It has other names depend on the place it live, such as milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black veined brown while the wingspan range from 8.9 to 10.2 centimetres (3.5–4.0 in) and it can be easily identified by having the upper side of the wings are tawny orange, the both margins are black combined with the series of small white spots attached. It moves quite a lot during the daylight which made me barely take the shots. So when I noticed it was a bit calm, and I saw there was a space to capture, I rushed to make a few clicks.

Cupid Butterfly

Another fancy winged insect is plain cupid butterfly, I really don't know why they call this small butterfly with that name. It has small form of body which required me to get closer to capture this cute small winged insect. Plain cupid butterfly (Chilades pandava) belongs to the lycaenids or blues family that lives around the bushes, near the ditch or in shady places.