Most of the English dictionaries have mistakenly taken the Spoonerism "Butterfly" for the proper word for these insects: "Flutterby". The roots of the word "flutterby" is obvious once you have seen one in flight. As we are not flutterby experts, we don't know the particular species of the one pictured here. This female was busy laying eggs (apparently) into the flowers in an alpine meadow. This brief activity was just long enough to grab an image before she took flight. Sometimes a certain amount of luck is needed to get good, sharp photographs!
The out of focus background of this image contains too many different colours to render well in the GIF format. Consequently all of our larger resolution backgrounds of this image are in JPEG format only.
The camera recorded the following information in the original image file:
Saturday, 26 July, 2003
2:24:43 PM
Color
Data Format: RAW (12-bit)
Compression: Lossless
Image Size: 3008 X 1960
Lens: 105mm f/2.8
Focal Length: 105mm
Exposure Mode: Shutter
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
1/200 sec-f/13
Exposure Comp: -1/3 EV
Exposure Difference: 0 EV
Hue Adjustment: 3
SpeedLight Mode: None
Sensitivity: ISO 250
Color Mode: Adobe RGB
White Balance: Direct sunlight
Tone Compensation: Low-Contrast
Sharpening: None
Model: Nikon D1X
Camera ID: Gerald & Irmgard Carter