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Cracker Butterfly

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Description:

Never seen a deformed Butterfly before, it was happily flying and feeding but it could not lay flat like most Crackers and the right side of the wings were totally deformed.. : (

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Comments (4)
Josh Asel
Poor guy. It looks like maybe he fell off of wherever it was perched while he was trying to dry its wings after metamorphosis.

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Butterflies & Moths of the World
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Paso Pacifico Survey
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El mini-mundo de Costa Rica
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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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Life in Costa Rica
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PublishedOctober 18, 2013

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