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Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

almost 3" long

Habitat:

rainforest

Notes:

I spotted this caterpillar at Kawa Amazonica Butterfly Farm. It's a community project inside the Iwokrama Forest Reserve. They are breeding some of the local butterflies to sell them to conservatories in the UK. They only had a few different species but I can't remember which one this was.

Species ID Suggestions

Red Cracker

Hamadryas amphinome

Comments (1)

Here's an adult female and her remarkable egg-laying behavior . . . http://www.treknature.com/gallery/South_America/Brazil/photo95108.htm . . . on a highly urticating vine.

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