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White Admiral - Limenitis arthemis
Copyright © 2004 tom murray

White Admiral - Limenitis arthemis
My Greylock, North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 11, 2004
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Contributed by tom murray on 29 December, 2005 - 7:53pm

Typo
Unless you really own Mt Greylock... ;-)
… Chuck Entz, 31 December, 2005 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

Taxonomic Note
This, of course, is the nominate 'subspecies' arthemis arthemis.
Note the separate red dots forming a discontinuous band on the underside of the HW.
In the Western 'subspecies' arthemis rubrofasciata these red dots are continuous so that a complete red band is present.
I am commenting here as we have no underside shots of Western at this time.
But see
… Tony-2, 30 December, 2005 - 6:22am login or register to post comments

What a nice series of images!
What a nice series of images!
… john and jane balaban, 29 December, 2005 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree,
excellent documentation for this complex. Dare I ask what this one is feeding upon!
… Tony-2, 29 December, 2005 - 8:40pm login or register to post comments

 
You guessed it
dried up scat.
… tom murray, 29 December, 2005 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

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