Reference photo
Photo: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 (rotated, cropped and resized). Not the specimen in Lucy’s drawer.
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Heliconius hecale
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Your framed specimen is a different individual of the same species, chosen and mounted by Lucy.
- Nymphalidae
- Butterfly
For young explorers
It eats flower pollen, not just sweet nectar.
Besides nectar it eats pollen, a Heliconius habit, and like its relatives it can live for months as an adult.
Catalog label
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Subfamily
- Heliconiinae
- Tribe
- Heliconiini
- Where it lives
- Central America; Northern South America
From the catalog of Lucy Garcia Salik, PhD. A mounted specimen from a licensed supplier.
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