A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Alypia Octomaculata
Eight-Spotted Forester. Adults are butterfly-like: They fly during the day, drink from flowers and even have antennae that are thickened at the tips. The overall wing color is black. The forewings have two pale yellow spots; the hindwings have two white spots. The body is mostly black. The front and middle pairs of legs have patches of bright orange hairs. The flight is fast and darting. The black and white pattern creates a flickering effect like a strobe light.
I photographed this little beauty in my back yard.
Spotted on Jun 12, 2012
Submitted on Nov 4, 2012
2 Comments
Nice spotting Patty,congrats,Thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :)
I hope you like the site and the community as much we do,there are many features you can explore,the chats for questions and comments on your's and other's spottings and to elp you in the ID process,a blog wich link is http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where you can find articls about wildlife writen by our best's specialist's in each field and news about some of our most knowed users.
Normaly spottings are adeed to missions to make easier the acess to other user's,the missions button is on the top of the page there you can find the ones fits better in your case,attention to the range of each mission,there are missions that haved a global name but are local,so you have to see the map of the mission and their you have the range of the mission marked,if is in your residential area ist' good,them there are global missions that you can join freely.For furder info you should go to http://www.projectnoah.org/faq ,here you will find all the rules of Project Noah
Enjoy your self,see you arround :)
Nice one :)