Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art

Swarms of butterflies

Just recently, in Brisbane, Australia, we have had an unusually high amount of butterflies and I particularly remember first noticing them while driving to work one morning. That same week the Brisbane Traffic Centre reported “early morning motorists on the busy Centenary Highway in Brisbane’s west were forced to slow down and clean their windscreens after encountering the butterflies.”

These butterflies are called Caper Whites and I found this poor critter in my art room one afternoon.

On a similar vein, this article then caught my attention on the National Geographic Magazine website:

Butterflies spatter the shoreline of the Juruena River in Brazil’s new 4.7-million-acre (2 million hectares) Juruena National Park. Several different species flock to the riverbanks to sip mineral salts from the sand.

Photograph by Zig Koch
From “Visions of Earth,” National Geographic, December 2007