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Phalera bucephala
This is an unusual and striking moth with a large pale cream blotch on each wing tip. The species creates the illusion it is just a dead and peeling piece of birch or oak stem when at rest, so fooling its predators into thinking it is not edible!
Spotted on Jul 26, 2015
Submitted on Jul 26, 2015
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