Tall Butterfly - _TNY_3091
The postman butterfly (Heliconius melpomene) is one of the longwing butterflies. This creates a distinct sillhouette with the wings raised high up like this.
The Heliconius species are very messy to keep apart. Not only do they mimic each other and differ in apperance with different places of distribution, but on toop of that they also hybridize with each other so there are a whole bunch of very similar species - and the same species looking quite different as well.
Tall Butterfly - _TNY_3091
The postman butterfly (Heliconius melpomene) is one of the longwing butterflies. This creates a distinct sillhouette with the wings raised high up like this.
The Heliconius species are very messy to keep apart. Not only do they mimic each other and differ in apperance with different places of distribution, but on toop of that they also hybridize with each other so there are a whole bunch of very similar species - and the same species looking quite different as well.