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Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Butterfly ID Please, 1 by vitrsna

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vitrsna wrote:
This looks like a heliconius to me but i haven't been able to discover what kind. You can't see it in the photo, but the antenae clubs are yellow and so are the legs. I've never noticed a bright red dot on the inside wing near the body of the various heliconius that come from the passiflora. The little slice of outer wing peeking out is orange with a thin black trim, but from the inside wing pattern it looks like there could be barring or patches on the outer wing. I did some very specific searches on the internet and came up with 4 and 5 hits. good grief, i usually get at least ten thousand hits even when i make a mistake in the search criteria. Any ideas? Thankyou.