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Comma (butterfly)
Polygonia c-album
52.314, 4.8303
Field Notes
Description:
The Comma has a white marking on its underwings resembling a comma. The wings have a distinctive ragged edge, apparently a cryptic form as the butterfly resembles a fallen leaf. The caterpillars are also cryptic, resembling a bird dropping. The larvae feed on hop, stinging nettle, elm, and blackcurrant; in other parts of its distribution (e.g. in Sweden) it also feeds on sallow and birch.
Habitat:
Polygonia c-album, known in the UK as the Comma is a species of butterfly common in the United Kingdom and with a distribution across Europe and temperate Asia to Japan and south to Morocco. Similar species are found in the United States and Canada.
Here spotted in a large park near Amsterdam.
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Comma (butterfly)
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PublishedJune 29, 2011
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