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Common brown

Heteronympha merope male

Description:

Bright brown butterfly feeding on flower nectar

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2 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

The females are larger and more pretty. They emerge a bit later, on average and the fitter males (that live longer) get to procreate

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Lovely!

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Dec 2, 2011
Submitted on Dec 4, 2011

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