Bhutan is home to a staggering 2,000 - well almost - moth species. That is almost three times the number of butterflies we have. Not that I understand these lepidopterans - but I love them because they are beautiful. As a nature photographer, I love beauty - in any form: I see them and if I do not see them, I create them in my mind's eyes and reproduce them in graphic form.
The following are 12 of the moths I photographed in Dechencholing areas of Thimphu in the past 6 months.
ENJOY!
Abraxas persimplex
Actias selene
Brahmaea hearseyi
Timandra correspondens
Erebabraxas metachromata
Deroca hidda
Rhodinia newara
Mesastrape fulguraria
Metapercnia ductaria
Ourapteryx sambucaria
Thinopteryx crocoptera
Tyana marina
The ID of the moths were confirmed by Mr. Karma Wangdi, a published author and Moth/Butterfly researcher at the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment Research (UWICER), Bumthang.
