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From August 24 to September 4, 2013, my butterflying friend Rebecca and I went on a trip to the Canopy Tower and Canopy Lodge in Panama to focus primarily on seeing butterflies. This was my third trip to those ecolodges in Panama, going for birds in 2005 and last year on a biodiversity trip on which we got excited about the variety of butterflies we'd seen there. While we shared our day trips at the Tower with others more interested in the birds, at the Lodge, their resident butterfly expert, Tino Sanchez, dedicated his time with us taking us to good butterfly spots and helping us see and identify more than 220 species overall during our visit. Again visiting during the "Green Season", this trip seemed to involve a bit more rain than previous trips, but that was good in bringing out some great amphibians and didn't keep the butterflies from flying. My pictures were taken with a Nikon 7100, usually with a 70-300 mm zoom lens with a few taken with a 100 mm macro lens. Photography can be a bit challenging in the dark rainforest, so I used a flash on a number of the pictures and found myself working with the ISO and other settings trying to get good exposures. Once again, I made it home with a ridiculous number of more than 2000 images, which I've so far managed to whittle down to about 300, and figured out the identity of most of the butterflies with the help of Rebecca, Tino, Kim Garwood and others. This first page shows a few pictures of some of the other critters and things we saw on the trip, with the butterflies on the next few pages. Page 2 has the Papilonidae (Swallowtails), Pieridae (Whites and Sulphurs), Lycaenidae (Blues and Hairstreaks), and Riodinidae (Metalmarks); page 3 the Nymphalidae (Brushfoots); and page 4 the Hesperiidae (Skippers). While I'm fairly certain on most of the butterfly identifications, certainly some are incorrect. Any corrections or suggestions for changes to any of them would be appreciated. |
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