Flutterbys & Patercillars

 Giant Swallowtail, pharmacophagus antenor.

It was huge, I first thought a bird was flying by!

African monarch, Danaus chrysippus

cocoon, the malagasy people collect them in the native tapia forest and make silk out of them. More: http://www.feedbackmadagascar.org/eng/whatwedo/projects/proj_silk.php

contrast

Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2013.

Phelsuma

first of many madagascan critter pics...

... the leech that got me at Ranomafana National Park, yikes :)

Emsflower by night

This does not really...

... feel like a holiday (yet).
Very busy trying to get a trip sorted, doing stuff I´ve put off far too long (organizing files, making dentists appointments...) and doing "butterfly stuff".
Despite of not/hardly lazing around it feels like I have not even managed to get half of the things done.
Can´t believe I´m off to the southern hemisphere next week, guess I´ll relax once Im sitting on a madagascan beach. Trip is much, much, much too short and expensive to make sense but I´m determined to enjoy it anyway.

 Quote of the day: "You can´t live a positive fife with a negative mind".