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Yellow Tiger Moth

Graptasura trilacunata

Photo by Dan Doucette
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

female moth with her eggs. Endemic to Borneo

Habitat:

tropical rainforest

Notes:

I spotted this in Tawau hills park.

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Comments (18)
Sckel
Congratulations boss
Dan Doucette
Thanks Yasser for sotd and thanks everyone for all the kind comments.
AntónioGinjaGinja
Another great find and series Dan,amazing spotting page,super work,congrats on another very well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing a so many interesting biodiversity, from the incridble places you go.
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Congratulations on the SOTD, dandoucette. I was wondering why the spottings were similar, (ChunXingWong and dandoucette) You guys went spotting together in Borneo!!.... : )
Yasser
Dan, thanks for sharing another super snapshot and congrats on another SoTD! I'm happy to see eggs in these photos since that means we'll see more of these beautiful moths in the future! Congrats again! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah/photos/a.10150595289465603.674700.10150120463815603/10153997170870603/?type=1&stream_ref=10 Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/452586240635056129
Dan Doucette
Thanks Carol, Chun, venus and Fyn. @Chun, looks like you were right, 10 so far.
ChunXingWong
You are definitely going to get more than 10 favorites for this spotting. Trust me :-)

Spotted for Missions

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Borneo's Bio
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Moths of the World
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Arthropods Below The Wind - Sabah
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Mission WILD
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National Geographic's Great Nature Project

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PublishedApril 1, 2014

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