"weekly" might depend^^

Welcome, welcome everyone!
We have 50 members now, which is wonderful!

Now, yet I have an announcement to make: I'll be off deviantart from Friday on two weeks.
For you - almost nothing changes. Please continue in submitting your gorgeous butterfly pictures, I'll be voting on them all as soon as i am back.

Here is the first feature of our group, let's take a closer look at some facts around our winged friends:

The Swallowtail

Distribution: in Britain restricted entirely to the Norfolk Broads. Widespread and fairly common throughout Europe, Africa, Asia.



Habitat: wetlands such as fens and marshes.




Size: wingspan 95mm.

Lifespan: These butterflies don't usually live more than a year.
They often have two generations a year, with some adults emerging in the Spring, and then their offspring emerging as adults in Fall.
This second generation only lives for a few months.



Wingspan:  The Giant Swallowtail, Papilio cresphontes can have a wingspan of 15 cm



Size:  The largest butterflies in the world are in this family too, they are called "birdwing butterflies" and live in Australia and Southeast Asia.
The largest have wingspans of over 25 cm!