Owl Butterfly

The largest butterfly in Costa Rica is the Owl Butterfly who can have a wingspan of up to 20 cm. It takes its name from the owl eyespots on the underside of its wings which scare off predators.

[Louise & Ken]

Everyone's favoutire in a butterfly farm...but you saw it in its natural setting! Beautiful!

[Call me Joe]

💕🦋

[PhylM-S]

Beautiful and the stark white with the DOF accentuate that beauty.

[Dianne]

Incredible image of this butterfly. Such owl ‘eyes’ should keep predators at bay.

[Milanie]

Wonderful focus.

[Diana]

A beautiful capture, wonderful patterns and tones. Fav

[Babs]

It is gorgeous.

[gloria jones]

Outstanding detailed capture...great composition

[Connie Little]

Lovely shot of this beautiful butterfly.

[Sarah Bremner]

Impressive and beautiful in a unique kind of way.

[Dione Giorgio]

20 cm? That would be a giant butterfly. He's a very beautiful butterfly with those markings and you got a wonderful shot of him.

[Caterina]

very sharp and full of details.

[Lynda McG]

Beautiful- fav!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wonderful details.

[Karly]

Wow - great close-up and lovely details!

[Margaret Brown]

Lovely focus, fav

[Joanna kate]

Shows the interesting patterns so well

[Pyrrhula]

Awesome big butterfly. thanks for the info. Great capture to show it.

[Gayle]

These Owl butterflies are so special! Excellent capture! Fav! :-)

[Suzanne]

Some wonderful detail on this gorgeous butterfly

[Jessika Panteleios]

How cool is that. Well captured!

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Excellent shot

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Great shot- it reminds me of one up here- but I can't remember the name of it! Silly me.

[Helen Sanderson]

wow..fabulous photo fav

[Nadiya Bilovodenko]

great details!