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Butterfly

Description:

It is a diurnal butterfly but it was sleeping posted on an abandoned wasp nest.

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4 Comments

The MnMs
The MnMs 10 years ago

Thanks Jacob,
So long without ID and finally you helped me :-)

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 10 years ago

Lovely, Marta! This is a moth in the Geometridae family. Subfamily might be Ennominae, and possibly Euchlaena.

The MnMs
The MnMs 12 years ago

I don´t know if coincidence but I saw the same type of butterfly during daylight and it is indeed yellow color.

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

The butterfly is the same color of the wasp nest, coincidence?

The MnMs
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The MnMs

Yucatán, Mexico

Spotted on Sep 12, 2011
Submitted on Sep 30, 2011

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