Ypthima Argus

Takatori Yama is fast becoming my favorite hunting ground. Snakes, caterpillars, Lizards, Birds of Prey, this tiny mountain has them all.

School boy errors today... the camera was playing up so I did a setting reset... forget to set the file type to RAW afterwards, so most of the pictures ended up as jpegs calibrated to the unnatural colours the camera wanted them in. This one came out alright though.

The snake would have been the blip proper, but I think it's the same type as I posted before, although this one must have been pushing 2 metres.

The caterpillar was awesome too, but I didn't get the lighting down very well. I think I need one if those shiny reflector things.  Anyway, the larvae is Byasa Alcinous, turns into a beautiful black swallowtail type butterfly with red markings.