Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Amazon rainforest butterflies, 0 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
Having lingered to photograph the butterflies, I hurried to catch up with my group and took a wrong turn. Realising my mistake, I hurried back and met our guide come to look for me. He turned me around again, saying it was an alternative route back to the Napo River. We then got there ahead of the rest of the party and he went off again to round up everyone else. I was left on a clay bank of the river and soon realised that a number of different butterflies were coming to the clay and licking up some minerals from the exposed banks. This gave me the chance of some more photographs. This one is Metamorpha elissa, sorry I couldn't find a common name: