Ecuador Amazon – Malachite Butterfly

February 2, 2014 by Photographer Ravi

The Malachite (Siproeta stelenes) is a neotropical brush-footed butterfly. The malachite has large wings that are black and brilliant green or yellow-green on the upper sides and light brown and olive green on the undersides. It is named for the mineral malachite, which is similar in color to the bright green on the butterfly’s wings.

8 thoughts on “Ecuador Amazon – Malachite Butterfly”

clover58 says: February 2, 2014 at 5:28 am

Beautiful!

Reply
- Photographer Ravi says: February 2, 2014 at 7:03 am
  
  Thanks Donna
  
  Reply
Pat says: February 2, 2014 at 7:11 am

Lovely color!

Reply
- Photographer Ravi says: February 2, 2014 at 7:28 am
  
  Thanks Pat
  
  Reply
Arkenaten says: February 3, 2014 at 4:42 am

This a superb photo, Ravi. May I ‘borrow’ it for a blog header for a while?
I shall reference you as the photographer, of course.

Reply
- Photographer Ravi says: February 3, 2014 at 9:05 am
  
  Ark, I would be honored. Please use it for your header.
  
  Reply
  - Arkenaten says: February 3, 2014 at 9:08 am
    
    Cheers. You can pop over to see it.
  - Photographer Ravi says: February 3, 2014 at 10:53 am
    
    Ark, looks very nice on your site.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this:

Photos by Ravi

Sharing unique images that I have captured from around the world. All images are copyrighted by Ravi Patel.

Ecuador Amazon – Malachite Butterfly

Like this:

8 thoughts on “Ecuador Amazon – Malachite Butterfly”

Leave a Reply Cancel reply