Sorta Old Beauty - _TNY_6402 - a photo on Flickriver

            Life as a tropical butterfly is a bit different to the ones living up here in Sweden.

For starters, there is no winter where everything is frozen so there is no need to adapt the life cycle to hibernate through the cold months.

This allows butterflies like this banded blue morpho (Morpho achilles) to have a life cycle of 115 days. This is not to say that the adult butterfly lives that long, but rather that after the egg is laid, it takes around two weeks to hatch.

They then live as caterpillars, eating and eating and eating for about eight weeks befor forming a chrysalis and enter the pupae stage.

They stay in there for about two more weeks before emerging as an adult!

They only live as adults for two or three weeks during which time they need to find a partner and mate and lay their own eggs - and start the cycle over again.

This Achilles blue morpho looks old and worn, and it is - but old in a morpho butterfly perspective means you hatched around three weeks ago.

Taken in: Sweden / Stockholm / Haga (show map)

Taken on: March 25, 2022

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Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

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Butterfly House

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Achilles blue morpho

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blue-banded morpho

banded blue morpho

Lepidoptera

Papilionoidea

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Sets appears in: • Haga Ocean Butterfly House • Butterflies

Groups appears in: • FlickrToday (only 1 pic per day) • Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro more » • Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM Macro • Frame It! ~Level 01~ (P1/A5) « less

Camera: Canon EOS 5DS, f/4.5, 1/60 sec, 100mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5DS
Lens:	EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.017 sec (1/60)
Focal Length:	100mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)
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