My Lamma Forums

[Lamma-Gung]

Paul Lau's stunning new coffee table book has just been published, amazing portraits of butterflies with flowers! Our book review will be coming up soon...

Click here to learn more (PDF file, 1MB); website.

[Lamma-Gung]

Book review and places to buy it in Yung Shue Wan:

http://www.compunicate.com/Lamma-zine/includes_news.html#Dec6

[zep]

Maybe you can demonstrate your newly acquire butterfly identification skills then and help me to put a name to this one, taken yesterday.

[Lamma-Gung]

Sorry, this new book is NOT designed to identify butterflies at all, no index or way to identify butterflies visually. It's not an update of Paul's well-known butterfly guide. My own copy has been with Guy for years and I never got it back. But it's probably more useful and more frequently used in his hands than in mine.

This new book is a photo book of butterflies & moths "portraits" with their favourite flowers, kind of a small-size coffee table book, gorgeous to look at, but not really suited for what you're trying to do. It's actually sorted by plants and flowers, not by butterflies.

I tried but couldn't find your butterfly.

[Chav Darwin]

your butterfly is a male Great Eggfly (Hypolimnus bolina, 幻紫蝶). You can tell it is a male because of the small white spots on the head. The female is similar without the head spots and with a white spotted pattern on the edges of the wings.