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Common Mormon

Papilio polytes

Photo by sttweets
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Habitat:

Spotted in the Amsterdam zoo.

Notes:

The shutterspeed for this picture was 1/250 second. As you can see the wings are really unsharp which means the move with an enormous speed.

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