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Heliconius melpomene cythera

Description:

Black and light to hot pink butterfly. Body has white spots and eyes are gray and spotted.

Habitat:

San Diego Zoo Safari Park's butterfly exhibit. They're found from Mexico to northern South America.

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bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago
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6 Comments

CindyBinghamKeiser
CindyBinghamKeiser 12 years ago

:) Thank you Carol. The group is awesome and you're such a great admin!

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 12 years ago

Your famous Cindy, I posted this at our Spider/nature lovers group on FB. I love it!

CindyBinghamKeiser
CindyBinghamKeiser 12 years ago

It's not local. I visited our amazing Safari Park the other day and they had a butterfly exhibit. So many butterflies in every color!

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 12 years ago

WOW Cindy! I haven't seen this before. But I am in the east. Gorgeous. Congrats!

CindyBinghamKeiser
CindyBinghamKeiser 12 years ago

Thank you for the ID, bayucca!
harsuame, thank you. I think the colors are beautiful too!

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 12 years ago

Preciosas series muy bella el color resalta su encanto

San Diego, California, USA

Spotted on Apr 3, 2012
Submitted on Apr 5, 2012

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