KL Butterfly Park, a quiet & peaceful place for photography

I bought a zoom lense (50mm-250mm) and need to find a location to test it and so the chosen location was KL Butterfly Park. After paying my RM8 entrance ticket plus RM1 camera fee, it just like entered into another world…..a world of fairy tales….

It was so fascinating to see so many butterflies flying above, around and below you. This place is so green, cooling and refreshing….shaded area with trees, flowers and water ponds. Without any delay, I grab my camera and began chasing butterflies :)

The afternoon sun was not strong, so have to bump up the ISO…

This is the first one I hunted while having its lunch on a tiny pink flower ~ it looks like a Chocolate Tiger species

Spotted another one, not sure what species is this…


Another white lass


This species is “Common Nawab” enjoying pineapple




Another one on the pineapple


The Banded Swallowtail, so it is called. Spotted it on the ground, drinking water I guess…

Species: looks like the Common Bluebottle

Species: looks like The Great Mormon. It was hidden beneath leaves, so it was quite hard to take this shot

Species: The Yellow Grassy Tiger. It was quite far away and had to zoom using 250mm. A bit blurred, this is the best shot I had of it.

Looks like the Striped Blue Crow species. No idea why it was called Blue Crow, as it doesn’t have any blue color on it nor looks similar to a crow.

Un-identified butterfly species

Other than butterflies, there were insects and bugs….

Species: The Palm King

Can you spot it? Another un-identified butterfly species….

The Chocolate Tiger

Red dragonfly. I guess it was having nap as it was very still and on the same spot for very long time.

Black and yellow butterfly

Species: The Great Eggfly

A nice little spot in the park for visitors to rest.

Species: The Cruiser

How did I identify all the names? Well, I browsed Chin’s Butterfly Gallery's website to get their names.....

More and more butterflies….

Just some other random shots after tired of butterflies

I like this particularly, not the butterfly, but the shadow effect

Another beauty...

Little spidey working tirelessly….

After spending approximately 4.5 hours in KL Butterfly Park, it was about time to go home…nevertheless, this won’t be the last visit, it was only the beginning :)

~2009~