Gold-banded Forester (Euphaedra neophron)

Family Nymphalidae Limenitinae

Found in a small band of forest along the northern coast of KwaZulu Natal.

Medium sized – about 5-6mm wingspan.

African Common White (Belenois cerona severina)

Males have a wingspan of 40-45mm. They are found mainly along the east coast and northern regions.

Male top of wing

Male wing below

Female

Caterpillars

There, see how easy it was!! LOL!!

Almost everyone got it right again except for You Know Who. He does not have a clue again and thinks it is some wooly mamoth or something. Sigh!! I try so hard to make it easy for him. LOL!!

Then of course there is Troutbirder ...... one of these days it is GOING to be a seed just for you. :)

Thanks for playing everyone.

We have the most fantastic caterpillars here but unfortunately, most of them I cannot match up to moths or butterflies as they have not been catalogued.
They come in all interesting shapes and colors.

Close-up of a butterfly Citrus Swallowtail (papilio demodocus)

The Citrus Swallowtail (papilio demodocus)is one of our more common butterflies. It is large with a wingspan of about 85mm. They lay their eggs on citrus trees. I caught this one in the garden and he was frienly enough to crawl on my hand and let me take the following two photographs.
This is a close-up section of the wing. Sometimes I think I should get a microscope for pictures like these.

These were taken of one I found in the garden. He was on his last legs and sat perfectly still while allowing me to take these pictures.