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Common Grass Yellow

Eurema hecabe hecabe

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Description:

The Common Grass Yellow or Large Grass Yellow, Eurema hecabe hecabe Linnaeus 1758 (Pieridae; Coliadinae) exhibits seasonal polyphenism with its darker summer morph being triggered by a long day exceeding 13 hours in duration, while the shorter diurnal period of 12 hours or less induces a fairer morph in the post-monsoon period (Wikipedia). E. h. hecabe is the ssp. occurring in several Luzon and Mindanao islands.

Habitat:

Makiling Botanic Gardens, a 300-hectare protected forest park, situated at the lower elevations of the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve's Molawin-Dampalit watershed in Los Baños, Laguna.

Notes:

Reference: http://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2013/01/life-history-of-common-gras…

Reference Links:

Eurema hecabe - Wikipedia, Butterflies in the Philippines

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PublishedNovember 3, 2017

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