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Cabbage White Feeding On Flower
20 of 46 from August 2014 |
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| Pieris rapae (Cabbage White) |
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I'm still learning to take photos of butterflies - I always figured these white things were moths but I was wrong. These two were very active (chasing each other it seemed) and were very particular about which flowers they fed on.
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| Camera: | Nikon D800 |
| Date: | Saturday, August 16th, 2014 at 11:32 AM |
| Exposure: | 1/640 sec at f4.5 |
| Exposure Compensation: | 851 ev |
| ISO: | 100 asa |
| Lens: | 105mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor With cropping (you see 29% of the image as shot), this lens is effectively a 194mm lens on a 35mm camera |
| Region: | North America, Canada, British Columbia |
| Scientific Name: | species related to Pieris rapae (Cabbage White) |
| Tag: | flower, insect, invasive, butterfly |
| Larger image: | 1999 x 1333 |
| Raw image: | 3984 x 2656 |
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