Thanks, Alan! This was one or a dozen that I released over the past three days, so I don't remember exactly how long it took her ( it is a female) to fly away. Two flew away immediately, as soon as I opened the door to the cage. Most waited until I reached in and removed them by hand, and tried to place them on a nectar flower. This one flew off the flower and spent some time on the ground. I wanted her out of the sun, so after taking this image, I moved her to an echinacea flower in the shade, and turned to other released butterflies.
Generally, newly emerged butterflies need at least an hour or two to dry off their wings before they are strong enough to fly. They generally hang on to the side of the cage, or the plant on which the chrysalis hung, gently opening and closing their wings until they are dry and strong enough for flight. A few take a lot longer. I released one onto an echinacea Wednesday evening, and it was still hanging on to the same flower Thursday morning. This lens is an FA 100 mm F 2.8. The other macro I use frequently is a DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 11:18 AM Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > Nice, Dan. How long before it flew off? BTW, I thought you had the D-FA > 100/2.8 Macro. > > Alan C > > On 19-Jun-21 03:23 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > One of my newly released Monarchs: > > > > http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2021/6/19/shadow > > > > K-5 IIs, smc FA 100 mm Macro F 2.8 > > Comments, criticisms, suggestions and questions are invited and > appreciated. > > > > Dan Matyola > > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* > > -- > > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
