Blimey (there must be something in the nectar)
Ummmm.... blimey - what more to say really!
Even making allowances for the fact that K. Kanya - whose hand is shown - is never going to play lock forward for England (or Thailand for that matter) that is a pretty big butterfly.
I have, in fact, seen them before around here but usually in the morning after a night of rain when pale, colourless and ragged they tend to flap through camp like and old, ghostly dish cloth.
This is the first I've managed to photograph though once again I'll have to leave it to the web researchers to give me latin names and the like.
Just thought I'd share this with you!
John
PS. The other good news is that Katherine found her baby elephant and it is now safe in the forests of Sisatchanalai.
Hi John,
Attacus atlas, the Giant Atlas Moth.
That's a female, and a good size one at that! She will emerge sit around and release a pheromone to attract smaller males, they will fly in, do the business and disappear!
The female will then go and dispose of her 300-400 eggs before dying.
As they have no active mouth parts,they cannot eat, their life expectancy is approx 5-7 days!
J
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...here's another one that we saw up at Wat Yonok in the Wetland Project - think this one wanted to be a handbag design but we let her fly off.
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...we'd better copyright that design quickly (though not with the actual moth) would be a great fund raiser should Yves Saint Laurent be watching and feel like donating to the cause!
Here's yet another one we saw on our way to laying down the mahouts' whisky for the wedding - I never get bored of them, in this part of the world where everything is eaten to see even on seems to be a blessing!
The Elephant Butterfly (Pee-suer chang) in Thai - for obvious reasons.
...oh, and the whisky, needs to marinate for a while - strictly herbal this brew, no insects, no snakes!
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...and this flopped through camp and landed on the Ladies' loom - that time of year again!
Unfortunately, the one day I didn't have my camera on me, just Doris-the-phone so my close-up still life didn't come out.
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...and we spotted this at one of our Rice Paddy Dining by Designs the other night.
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