‘Robber’ attacks the Butterflion
Category: Butterflies, Culture, Ecology, Flies | Date: Sep 01 2009 | By: dududiaries
As I was putting the final touches to the Butterflion a few days ago before he was picked up by the people from Born Free, I noticed that there was a strange fellow hanging around the lion’s painted mane.
He swished back and forth in a very suspicious manner. I decided to stand as still as possible and watch to see who this interloper was. After several tense seconds, he showed himself, pouncing on one of the butterflies painted on the lion’s mane!
Stunned, as this butterfly was not a juicy piece of prey but a layer of acrylic pigment on some rather hard fibre-glass, the attacker sat there and obligingly let me take his picture. This is a Robber-Fly, a common predatory insect that often seizes butterflies from the air and when they perch. However, this time he was fooled!
More soon – the launch of the lions takes place tomorrow morning and I will be there. Many thanks to everyone for their kind comments especially Dana, Christine, Tonee and Sheryl.
Tags: , born free, butterfly, Dino Martins, pride of kenya, Robber-fly
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3 Responses to “‘Robber’ attacks the Butterflion”
Dana-Phoenix Arizona, on 01 Sep 2009
Dino, another testimate to how wonderful AND realistic your butterfly’s are :>)
Joy, on 02 Sep 2009
Dana… i was thinking the exact same thing!!!
Poor robber!!! Must have been wondering what he had for breakfast!!!
Gabe, on 07 Sep 2009
Wait a minute, I think Dino painted the robberfly too!! =)
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