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Charaxes castor
It is a medium sized butterfly that was seen at the Texas Discovery Gardens.The butterflies natural habitat Afrotropical ecozone below the Sahel.The butterfly is like many leaf butterflies and eat rotting fruit and other substances that rot like dead animals.For me the most amazing feature of any emperor butterfly is their yellow giant proboscis that is used like a sponge absorbing all those liquids.The butterfly is stunning with an orange stripe and some patterns with red black and blue.The butterfly was found dead by a natural life span and was eaten by ants that are present in the buttefly house.
Texas Discovery Gardens, Fair park Dallas, Texas. In their natural habitat they live in tropical Africa below Sahel in the Afrotropical ecozone.
Dead specimen that was eaten by ants.
Spotted on Aug 20, 2017
Submitted on Apr 13, 2020
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Thanks for favoriting(:
Updated the reference box
Thanks, It is good to give credit on where you got the info from.
Beautiful shot Ornithoptera, Thanks for sharing. FYI: It's good to put links you've used in the reference box when you submit the spotting or edit later. I know I always look there to see if there is a link. Thanks for providing it.
https://txdg.org/tropical-butterflies