Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Amazon rainforest butterflies, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
As a prelude to my trip to the Galapagos, I spent three nights in a lodge in the Amazonian rainforest in the north-east of Ecuador. There were a lot of lovely butterflies about, but most of them didn't sit still to have their pictures taken. The most spectacular was the enormous Blue Morpho, which I saw several times flitting on long wing-beats across a jungle clearing, but none ever landed that I saw and I gather that when they do they always fold their wings.
Some butterflies did approach more closely however, and this Malachite Siproeta stelenes intially landed on someone's jumper and I had to move it across onto a leaf to get a more natural photo!