Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, in the forests of the night. With apologies to William Blake, but with two Tiger-striped Long Wing butterflies in a single image, I couldn’t resist calling this post Tyger! Tyger! Of course a butterfly is not a ferocious tiger, (or a tyger as Blake used a spelling already archaic when he wrote his poem The Tyger in 1794, his reason left to scholars to debate) but their coloration certainly mimics the colors and patterns of their namesake. And they were not in a forest but in the Missoula Butterfly House although they are Central American butterflies so it is possible when not in captivity they live in a rainforest. But, in my mind, the first two lines of that poem seem to fit this image perfectly.