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Tailed Jay

Graphium agamemnon

Description:

Green and black tropical butterfly.

Habitat:

Wooded areas with fairly heavy rainfall.

Notes:

Photographed in the Tolga Scrub, one of the last remaining areas of Mabi Rainforest on the Atherton Tableland.

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12 Comments

Alex Pope
Alex Pope 11 years ago

Thanks Karen!

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

What a beauty!
Welcome to the Community Alex!

rosanne1123
rosanne1123 11 years ago

it is just beautiful!

Alex Pope
Alex Pope 11 years ago

Thanks! :)

Yasser
Yasser 11 years ago

Beautiful shot! Wicked color and pattern.

Alex Pope
Alex Pope 11 years ago

They are difficult to photograph, you can see from my amateurish video how quickly they move! I managed to catch two on it though.

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Amazing shot! I saw a lot of these in Thailand, I know how hard they are to photograph. They don't like to sit still for too long!

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

very pretty

Mark M.Wojchick
Mark M.Wojchick 11 years ago

beautiful

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Grate spotting!

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 11 years ago

Hermosa...

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 11 years ago

Preciosa!

Alex Pope
Spotted by
Alex Pope

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Spotted on Feb 25, 2010
Submitted on Apr 28, 2012

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