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Field Notes

Description:

Butterfly with dark brown wings. Blue spots have black near them and there are yellow edges.

Habitat:

A bush near my house.

Species ID Suggestions

Mourning Cloak

Nymphalis antiopa

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Dan Doucette
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Comments (1)
Malcolm Wilton-Jones
I was about to identify this as a Camberwell Beauty, a European species supposedly, but it has the same Scientific name, Nymphalis antiopa, so just a different sub-species perhaps.

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PublishedOctober 28, 2014

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