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Description:

Butterfly

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bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Lethe europa.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29954808@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49296659@N0...
http://www.pbasehk.com/slideshow/butterf...
http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/letheeuro...
http://wanderingbutterflyeffect.files.wo...

Easy spoken: To separate moths from butterflies you have to look at the antennae: Moths usually have straight or featherlike antennae, whereas butterflies have clubbed antennae, meaning the tips of the antennae are slightly thickened and rounded.

dannyusher
dannyusher 11 years ago

Ok. How do you tell? I have always wondered.

JeffCrocombe
JeffCrocombe 11 years ago

Not a moth but a butterfly.

dannyusher
Spotted by
dannyusher

台南市 (Tainan City), Taiwan

Spotted on Sep 22, 2012
Submitted on Sep 22, 2012

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