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Blue Morpho Butterfly

Morpho peleides

Photo by PaulBeaudry
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Habitat:

the rainforests of Costa Rica. This was taken at MonteVerde.

Species ID Suggestions

Morpho peleides
PaulBeaudry
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Comments (3)
PaulBeaudry
Thank You! I had a hard time getting him too....especially with wings OPEN! It took a couple of hours but finally this was the only decent pic I could get. :)
SusanEllison
this guy is hard to get a pix of...I was unsuccessful...you did good!
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PublishedJune 4, 2011

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