Dryas iulia, commonly called by several names like :- the Julia butterfly, Julia heliconian, the flame, or flambeau, This Butterfly is a species of brush-footed butterfly. The sole representative of its genus Dryas,

it is native from Brazil to southern Texas and Florida. In summer can sometimes be found as far north as eastern Nebraska.

Julia heliconian is a narrow-winged butterfly with elongated forewings. On the upper side, the wings are bright orange in the male and duller orange in the female. There are black borders along the wing margin, with those in the female broader and more extensive.

On the underside, the wings for both sexes are paler compared to the upper side, and are adorned with brown markings in the cell, in post-discal area as well as along the wing margins. A small pinky red patch occurs in the basal area of both wings.

The Julia heliconian was believed to a utterfly imported from Puortoo Rico by a farm in Phuket in 2009. It was released into the wild. Along the coast, the first visitor was seen in Penang in 2014. The new emigrant with good numbers with increasing frequency in PJ where I got loads of pictures. The adults are rapid in flight and not easy to photograph. Typically, photography opportunities arise when the butterflies visit flowers such as those of Lantana or Leea indica.

Set #1 - In the air