Today’s post features a couple of images from my recent visit to a wonderful, private butterfly garden near Paola, Kansas. The Pipevine Swallowtails were very busy around several Dutchman’s Pipevine plants that grow here. Here are a couple of favorite images:
A small Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar that we found on a Dutchman’s Pipevine leaf:
Here is a collection of Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars that the garden’s owner had found (she takes them inside the house to protect them from visiting birds):
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark III body
- Canon 180mm f/3.5 macro lens
- Handheld
- ISO 800 (used since hand-holding macro lens)
- Aperture f/11 (both images)
- Shutter 1/30 sec. (top image) and 1/15 sec. (bottom image)