A tail of an old butterfly

I was looking for some birds up by the lake and happened to see a Tiger Swallowtail struggling in flight and fall gracefully onto a bush near by. I grabbed my camera with my 300mm F4 IS with a Kenko 1.4x tc. As I approached the butterfly I could see that he had very tattered wings and was thinking I could get some prime old battle tested butterfly shots. Here was the first shot I captured.


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...8_25_20476.jpg


He started to move all over the place and it didn't seem like a natural movement for a butterfly.


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...8_25_20462.jpg


I saw this bump on the butterfly and thought maybe he was sick or something. Then I got a little closer...


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q...ked%252520.jpg.


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O...8_25_20600.jpg


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-S...8_25_20533.jpg


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X...8_25_20512.jpg


I believe it was a crab spider and he was man handling this butterfly! This would have been a great time to either have my tubes or my macro lens with flash set up on me. Lesson learned!


Jayson

I reckon I

Great capture, in the right place at the right time.


Isn

Great catch but ....[:(]!

Poor butterfly!

Great set of photos Jayson [Y] That's how things work in nature, beautiful[:)]