Tiny Butterfly Beauty

This tiny butterfly just slightly over one centimeter wide was seen in Altos del Maria, Panama.

Tiny Butterfly Panama

Cream Owl Butterfly Panama

Cream Owl Butterfly image taken in Panama

cream-owl-butterfly

White butterfly on lavender flower

White butterfly on purple lavender flower image taken in La Provence, southern France.

White butterfly on lavender flower

Metallic Skipper

Metallic Skipper Butterfly

Metallic Skipper

Blue Morpho Butterfly

Blue-Morpho

The Blue Morpho refers to several species of Morpho butterfly, including:

* Morpho menelaus (Menelaus Blue Morpho)
* Morpho peleides (Peleides Blue Morpho)
* Morpho rhetenor

Rothschildia orizaba

Rothschildia orizaba (Orizaba Silkmoth) image taken in Panama.

Rothschildia orizaba

Tetrio-sphinx caterpillar

Huge Tetrio-sphinx caterpillar, the Tetrio sphinx (Pseudosphinx tetrio) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It ranges from Brazil in South America to the southern United States. This huge almost 5 inches long caterpillars where seen along the coast in Panama City.

Tetrio-sphinx

Common Buckeye

The (Common) Buckeye (Junonia coenia) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
This image was taken in Panama.

Common-Buckeye

Firetip Skipper

Firetip Skipper – Firetips or firetail skippers are the tribe Pyrrhopygini of the skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae).

Firetip Skipper

Banded Peacock

The Banded Peacock or Fatima (Anartia fatima)

Banded Peacock