Tag Archives: Japanese butterflies

August 21

Gilded by the sun

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An Asian Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio xuthus – ナミアゲハ) takes a rest in the late afternoon sun outside Takada Honzan Senju-ji Temple in Tsu, Mie.

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July 29

Luminescence

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This ‘little’ guy barely escaped my tyres when he decided to have a rest in the middle of the footpath. Good thing there was a garden nearby to shoo him into.  

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