One of the nice things about photographing butterflies is that they often are on flowers. This means you not only get the beautiful color of the butterfly but the flower as well. The top photo is a leopard lacewing heliconian, found in the South Asian tropics. The colorful male on the left and duller female on the right. The bottom photo is a banded orange heliconian whose range is Brazil to Central Mexico. Prior to their mating season, banded orange males congregate by the hundreds on patches of moist soil that contain mineral salts. When they cannot find such deposits, they look for animals to drink salty secretions from their skin and nostrils. These photos were also taken at the Tucson Botanical Garden.
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