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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I'll wrap it up there. I could have spent hours at the site observing all the moths and trying to capture them with a little more art. Bhutan throws all manner of surprises at me, but rarely something so impressive and unexpected.

Hope you enjoyed getting a glimpse into this world too.

10/10

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I just can't express how much I love those 60s and 70s designs on some of these critters. Pure art. I couldn't paint something beautiful if I tried.

9/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight #NatureIsArt

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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A hint of yellow in the colour range too. I can dig it.

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་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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There was more than months too. Beetles were drawn in by the light, big ones! Many of these were still alive. One in particular was so feisty, even flipped upside-down.

I righted him up and he tried to murder me. Nature is dangerous people!

5/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#beetles #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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I can tell you the Chendebji is covered in white lime. The stupa and shorten at very very white.

But in recent times they repainted and added some super bright flood lights. When I stepped closer to these, I found literally thousands of dead moths.

Not to say they wouldn't have died somewhere in the forest anyway, but it seemed very sad.

4/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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The sheer variety of moths in one tiny little space was amazing. But why?

I did notice that a lot of them were white. And one particular species far outnumbered the others. The doorway was awash with moths.

I know next to nothing about moths myself. I've only just tuned my brain into being more aware of butterflies.

3/x

་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I want to tell a little story about a stupa in Bhutan called Chendibji, a beautiful place I have visited many times but has a sad story.

It's a special place for Bhutanese, a spiritual place surrounded by wild forests. Recently they restored the stupa and chorten and installed immense flood lights to illuminate at night.

Moths flock to it.

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་སྡེབ་སྦྱིས་མཆོད་རྟེན།

#mothstodon #སྤྱན #bhutan #chendebji #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothstothelight

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Went to a festival in Bhutan. Found a giant yellow moth.

#bhutan #bumthang #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #notbutterflies #bigyellowmoth #mothstodon

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Just a little update to the Emerald Tiger Moth (Callindra principalis) seen zipping about Bhutan at 2900m.

I first saw one two days ago, and posted those pics above. But then yesterday while visiting Gangtey Gonpa another one landed right in front of me while walking the grounds of the gonpa!

#mothstodon #bhutan #phobjikha #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothormonster #callindra #tigerMoth

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Your regular reminder that nature is terrifying and should be avoided at all costs.

#bhutan #phobjikha #photography #lumix #freakybeetles #himalayas #notbutterflies #entomology #buglife

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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This little guy had such a lovely paint job. Less of an "Evil Warlord" vibe and more "Let's play with paint tins".

#mothstodon #bhutan #punakha #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothormonster

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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When the local moths are even more colourful than the dancing monks! Just in awe of these miniature moments of nature flittering past me every time I take a walk outside.

#bhutan #phobjikha #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #butterflies #notbutterflies #mothormonster

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Stopped to shoot some flowers on the drive today but got distracted by the bees. This little fella was loaded down with pollen sacks but still going in for more.

Dialed in my "birds in flight" custom setting for these shots, because the bees never really sit still. F2.8 with 1/2000th sec exposure and auto ISO.

#bhutan #beecause #photography #lumix #himalayas #notbutterflies #entomology #buglife

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I did take more photos of butterflies today but also ran into a few other inspirations. It's been a wild day actually!

#bhutan #phobjikha #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #notbutterflies #entomology #buglife

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Anybody have the foggiest idea what this crazy critter might be? Location was Paro, in Bhutan. Early morning, where the forest meets the meadows.

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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Also not butterflies. Honestly there is so much weirdness in nature.

#bhutan #phobjikha #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas #notbutterflies

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Ewen Bell · @ewen
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I didn't just shoot butterflies this week.

#notbutterflies #bhutan #phobjikha #photography #lumix #flutterbyes #himalayas

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