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Butterfly

Description:

Black with blue band V shaped and blue fringe on hind wings.

Habitat:

Edinburg Butterfly Centre.

Notes:

Could not ID it from the leaflet provided.

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5 Comments

Grabs
Grabs 6 years ago

Cool.......

thanks Daniele :)

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 6 years ago

Hi Grab! It's captive at a butterfly house so it can be from anywhere :-)

Grabs
Grabs 6 years ago

Blue banded butterfly

is it popssible for the butterfly to make it to england??
it says, its only native in south africa.....

https://www.chicagobotanic.org/butterfli...

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 6 years ago

Graham, this butterfly was spotted at a butterfly house. White Admiral can refer to 3 species: Limenitis arthemis, Limenitis camilla and Limenitis trivena, but none of these seem to match.

Graham Monroe
Graham Monroe 6 years ago

It looks a little like a white admiral but I do not think they are in Scotland.

SukanyaDatta
Spotted by
SukanyaDatta

Scotland, United Kingdom

Spotted on Sep 2, 2017
Submitted on Sep 12, 2017

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