Glass-wing butterflies

Thursday 26 April 2007

We arrived in Puerto Iguazu today, up in the northeast corner of Argentina. It is tropical jungle up here, similar to Paraguay. These little pretties are known as glass-wing butterflies, because, obviously, their wings are completely clear. In fact, I thought that this photo was out of focus at first, but it turned out that it was just the veins of the back wing showing through the front one.

Many thanks to Ryan for pointing them out, because I was quite ready to just sit down and not see any more butterflies.