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Gatorfly

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This little tiny guy was recently added to the Rainforest. We released three before Dr. Jaret Daniels decided to come by and take the rest of them so he could breed them. Why? Because these Atala(Eurmaeus atala) are fairly rare and can only be found in Cuba, the Bahamas and deep southeast Florida. It is that last fact and because it has orange and ble that this photo is named such.

Scientific Name: Eumaeus atala
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Theclinae
Tribe: Eumaeini
Image size
960x731px 425.15 KB
Make
SONY
Model
DSC-H2
Shutter Speed
10/2500 second
Aperture
F/3.2
Focal Length
9 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Apr 7, 2008, 2:07:43 PM
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
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fotofaeria
absolutely love that shot! :+fav:

i was fortunate enough to find a colony of these in flight once, in the everglades national park...after painstakingly hunting down a patch of their host plant (Coontie) amongst the low-growing palmettos. it was truly heavenly^^