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Marbled White, pjegavac

Melanargia galathea

Photo by Jopy
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Field Notes

Description:

Wings are white to yellowish with dark spots like fields on chessboard, underside of wings are green or grey spots, on margin with little, round spots in eye shape.

Habitat:

mountain forest clearings, feeding on Knautia sp.

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Melanargia galathea

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Comments (3)
Jopy
@faredin, don't know what you are waiting, we have more beautiful, these are very common :D @debbie, I found it today in National park, there was planty of them on one forest clearings...happy, happy!!
FaredinAliyevski
aj aj i am seriously coming to Croatia...amazing butterflies you have got.

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PublishedJuly 17, 2013

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