Owl Butterfly.

[JohnP]

I took this shot in a Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador in 2011... no chance of ever repeating that trip!

[Ryewolf]

I think Chester Zoo has the Owl Butterflies.

[JohnP]

Just now, Ryewolf said:

I think Chester Zoo has the Owl Butterflies.

I've seen them 12 miles from my home...

It was at the Butterfly Zoo at Symonds Yat near Ross on Wye in Herefordshire.

[Clicker]

Wow John .... what a beautiful creature ....top drawer stuff ... I rather like the fact that people are delving into their archives .. never seen  one before even on tv or in a book ... great name for it too. 

[Kobione]

Beautiful colour and detail in the wing John, lovely butterfly!!

[Fogey]

A stunning shot - and it's nice it was taken in its natural environment.  As has been mentioned, there are some instances where these can be seen in this country, but all the places I have looked up are closed due to this damned pandemic we're having.

[Denis]

Again, one of your renowned brilliant butterfly shots. What a creature eh?

[JohnP]

1 hour ago, Denis said:

Again, one of your renowned brilliant butterfly shots. What a creature eh?

Denis... Getting this shot was the furthest I've ever travelled to take a butterfly shot, of course I didn't really go to just take this one image. The whole journey starting at Heathrow was three flights over a 20 hour period, lord knows how many miles by road, 130 miles down the Rio Napo by boat to Sani Lodge where I stayed for a week and a lot of trekking in the forest.... I was 65 at the time and I'm glad I never left any later in my life to do it.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sani+lodge&qpvt=Sani+Lodge&form=IGRE&first=1&tsc=ImageBasicHover

 

[Denis]

Looked at the link, interesting looking place, My son travelled through Peru last year hiking and climbed Machu Picchu .  He done it for me he said as I could never climb those altitudes due to me poor old heart