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Julia butterfly (with ethilia longwing)

Dryas iulia (with Heliconius ethilla)

Photo by BrunoMoller
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Field Notes

Description:

•They eat nectar and caiman tears.
•They irritate the eye of the caiman to produce tears.
•They are long-lived butterflies.

Habitat:

Clearings, paths, margins of forests, woodlands
-I saw these butterflies in Itaipava(RJ, Brazil)

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