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White Admiral - Limenitis arthemis

Mt. Greylock, North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 11, 2004

Contributed by tom murray on 29 December, 2005 - 7:53pm
Last updated 15 November, 2010 - 11:12am

Typo

Unless you really own Mt Greylock... ;-)

… Chuck Entz, 31 December, 2005 - 11:33am

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

… A.W. Thomas, 30 December, 2005 - 6:22am

What a nice series of images!

What a nice series of images!

… john and jane balaban, 29 December, 2005 - 8:17pm

I agree,

excellent documentation for this complex. Dare I ask what this one is feeding upon!

… A.W. Thomas, 29 December, 2005 - 8:40pm

You guessed it

dried up scat.

… tom murray, 29 December, 2005 - 10:21pm

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