The main goal of this forum is to allow you all (both expert and beginners) to post photos of butterflies or moths that you cannot identify. To help the experts get to the most accurate answer, please make sure to post the following details (you can use this as a template if you want to):

Date seen:
Province:
Nearest town:
Locality:
Interesting observation notes, etc:

If possible, post photos of both the upperside and the underside of the butterfly. This will make identification a lot easier!

When referring to butterflies, you can either use the common names (English or Afrikaans ), but ideally you should use the scientific name to avoid any confusion. Remember, when writing scientific names, the genus name is spelled with a capital letter, and the species name not. These should ideally also be in italics, eg. Aloeides dentatis dentatis.

NB: This forum is not suppose to replace the SABCA virtual museum, so please keep on sending all your records to SABCA, so that the data can be collected in a database. This forum is mainly to help you all identify the butterflies and moths you come accross more quickly.

We are all looking forward to some interesting contributions!

Just an example:

Date seen: 14 Feb 2009
Province: Limpopo Province
Nearest town: Vaalwater
Locality: Kloofsig 4X4 Trail
Interesting observation notes, etc: Was feeding on flowers.

How do you post Photo's in this forum?

I have tried but to no avail. Can some one please adviseDo you first have to down load to Photobucket then load to forum or is it possible to load direct from file as for the VM

It is quite easy

I don't know if you saw in one of my previous newsletters, but I explained it step by step...

You can copy your photos to you desktop and then resize the in Microsoft Paint (can't remember what the name is now) to web large.

Then all you do is, at the bottom of this message box, there is an option "Select image file to attach and click on browse and select your photo. And then submit. As easy as that.

I only know how to load one at a time, so each time you have uploaded a photo, it will show you the preview of what it will look like in the forum, so you have to just click edit at the bottom and it will take you back to your draft so that you can add more photos or writting.

Hope this will help.

Cheers

Yolande

If you are only posting one or two photos then it is easy to do it directly through the forum. If you are posting lost of photos, it will definitely be faster to load them onto FlickR, Facebook or Photobucket first and then link them into an article by putting the URL between |IMG| ... |\IMG| brackets (the | icons should be open and closed square brackets)