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Sweetheart Underwing

Catocala amatrix

Photo by Jacob Gorneau
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Field Notes

Description:

A lovely moth with bright red hindwings, Catocala amatrix is only one of the amazing species in the Catocala genus which are characterized by bark-colored forewings and striking hindwings, meant to startle potential predators.

Habitat:

Found resting on the side of my sister's chicken coop.

Notes:

Lifer!

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Comments (8)
Jacob Gorneau
Thank you so much, dotun, Carol, Rieko, Adarsha, and wolflover090!
RiekoS
Exciting to know that I could meet this beauty someday, maybe......
dotun55
That's a lovely name J. Nice find ;-)

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PublishedOctober 6, 2013

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