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31-JUL-2007

The complete Peacock Butterfly!

This beautiful butterfly has 2 very clever ways of deterring predators, in this pik you can clearly see this!

The wings closed look like a crumpled dead leaf and open the wings scare birds with the big eyes of their wing patterning, the perfect predator deterrant!

Canon EOS 20D
1/800s f/3.5 at 100.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Tom Munson21-Jul-2009 16:19
This is a fantastic image, Carole! Great work!
Ray :)01-Aug-2007 12:22
Yes, the right hand one fooled me at first! Congratulations on all the hard work you've put in - I remember that budleia is a butterfly magnet.
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