Sunday, December 20, 2015

Tropical bufferflies, Botanical Garden Munich, Germany, December 2015


The colourful tropical butterflies arrived to the Botanical Garden in Munich. Butterflies are amazingly beautiful, although usually they do not live long. Butterflies exist on all continets besides Anatarctica. In the life cycle of a buffterfly there are four stages: 
1) eggs -> 2) larva (catepillar) -> 3) pupa (chrysalis) -> 4) adult (imago).


Siproeta stelenes from Middle and northern South America. 
You can find him e.g. in the Amazon and Andes.


Monarch (Danaus plexippus), range: North & South America, southern Canada, Australia, Pacific Islands. Every year monarch butterflies migrate extremely long distances (up to 3,000 miles  = 4,828 kilometers), because of the cold weather.


Anteos clorinde is flying in South America, Central America, and North America.


Tithorea harmonia, range: Central & northern South America.


... and this is me ;)








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