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Zebra Mosaic, Dirce Beauty
Colobura dirce
16.9938, -89.0826
Field Notes
Description:
This is one of the butterflies in which the underside of the wings is more beautiful and interesting than the topside, which is a dull black with a cream or yellow stripe across the forewing.
Habitat:
The larvae feed on Cecropia species, so it will be found in the vicinity of Cecropias, and in this case it came to my butterfly fruit bowl (where I put overripe fruit to see what comes) a few feet from a cecropia tree just off my veranda in the rainforest midcanopy.
Notes:
It likes bananas, but here it is sucking on a melocoton, which looks like a large sausage and smells/tastes like cantaloup.
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Colobura dirce
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2016
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