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Malayan eggfly

Hypolimnas anomala

Photo by kajsabrittsjo
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Apparently the best way to attract butterflies is to do a really sweaty outdoors sport, like rock climbing, and the butterflies just swarm to you! A couple of these were happily fluttering about sitting on us and our sweaty equipment.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
SoonChye
This is the Malayan Eggfly (Hypolimnas anomala)
kajsabrittsjo
I'm new to id-ing butterflies, so those of you in the know, please let me know if you think it's something else! :)

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