Varied Eggfly (male) (Hypolimnas bolina) | Project Noah

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Photo by Andrea Lim

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Field Notes

Description:

Butterfly to 7cms at rest. When it landed it slowly and continuously fanned it wings for 30 secs and then flew off.

Habitat:

Spotted in my vegetable patch from my bedroom window.

Notes:

Male: The upper side of the wings are jet black, offset with three pairs of white spots & two on the forewing and one on the hind. These white spots are surrounded by purple iridescence. In addition, the upper side of the hind wing bears a series of small white dots.
Female: The upper side of the wings of the female is a brownish black and does not have any spots like those of the male.

Reference Links:

Hypolimnas bolina, Common Eggfly Butterfly, Varied Eggfly - Hypolimnas bolina

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I think those circles on the wings are actually blue violet in color

I have to say it again I love blue and this is a beautiful butterfly ever saw very pretty

Thank you Jared, dotun55, Maria and the lovely words of wisdom from Petrice.

I meant to say that God created not me so sorry for that mistype

So beautiful Blue is my favorite color so you can imagine how amazing I am at this butterfly so beautiful some think I created so beautiful

beautiful!

Cool spotting

Great spot Andrea!! Love the colours!

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