Butterfly from the cocoon.
The first hours of the life of a butterfly after hatching from a cocoon. The butterfly wakes up and spreads its wings. At this time, she is particularly vulnerable and hides under the leaf of the plant. See my photos.
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Very beatifull ..
I like photos ..
Beautiful scenery .. the beauty of nature created by God Almighty so we always take benefit from the creature .. because everything he created is not in vain or just coincidence .. behind it all there is a lesson for people who want to think ..
Thank you very much ..
I do really enjoy watching a little worm to grow up to become a nice butterfly as well. Personally I had caught a little spider in my home when I was working. Watching it grows bigger as you feed it day by day is really fine. Good work!
Well spotted, @grildrig. Really interesting photos! I'm not totally convinced that's a butterfly, although I would have to see it up close to be sure, and get your observations on some of its behaviour as it was drying its wings.
It might be a brightly coloured moth (would be interesting to see its habitat to see if that colouring would help with confusing predators). Telltale signs: moths hold their wings down, while butterflies hold theirs up - granted, during the drying period immediately following emergence from the chrysalis, they tend to slowly flap them open and closed up - butterflies also have little "knobs" at the end of their antennae, while moths' antennae are feathered (some with a slim profile, others with quite a wide, extravagant profile), and finally, butterflies metamorphose in chrysalids (hard shell) rather than cocoons (spun silky containers). That shell does look more like a chrysalis than a cocoon. Would be really interesting to know more about what wing-drying behaviour you observed, and what this lovely creature's antennae looked like.
Nice capture.
Life cycle
Nice post
Butterfly is beautiful
Beautiful shot, love it, upvoted and follow
Great that you caught this stage.
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