Experience nature – butterflies on Saba (Caribbean Netherlands)

On Monday, March 30, 2026, the 34th series of the long-running stamp series *Beleef de natuur* (Experience Nature) will be released. This new issue contains the butterfly stamps numbered 331 through 339. Later this year, another twenty stamps within the same issue will follow, including a series on underwater life and the flora of Saba.

Issue details: graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda, print run 275.000 stamp sheets, first day of issue Monday 30 March 2026, printer Joh. Enschedé BB, Haarlem.

1) It depends, but the dorantes londtal (Urnanlis Dorantes) often views it from a different perspective.
perspective.

2) Those wing spots of the mangrove buckey (Junonia Genoneva) catch the eye quite quickly.

3) An orange passionflower butterfly is a bit more. That's the tragedy of such a crocodile-weeping Julia (Dryas Julia).

4) Dark type? The Caribbean Duskywing (Ephyriades Arcas) simply has a dark appearance.

5) Nutritious indeed; generations of ruddy daggerwings (Marpesia Petreusi) have been raised on them.

6) More blue on the streets? Male Cassius blues (Leptotes Cassius) are indeed patrolling.

7) Really? Do zebra butterflies (Heliconius Charithonia) help crossing wildlife?

8) A tropical white like that (Glutophrissa Drusilla) just happens not to have a typical tropical color.

9) A tadpole like the checkered-skipper orcus (Burnsius Orcus) looks somewhat blocky.

10) Dark chocolate and red velvet: the recipe for a red rim (Biblis Heria).

Circulation figures for the Experience Nature emissions 2018 through 2026

2018 130.000 & 315.000 sheets (3x)

2019 315.000 sheets (4x)

2020 315.000 sheets (4x)

2021 285.000 sheets (4x)

2022 285.000 sheets (4x)

2023 285.000 sheets (4x)

2024 285.000 sheets (4x)

2025 275.000 sheets (4x)

2026 275.000 sheets (4x)