Pointed Leafwing
by Robert Bales
Title
Pointed Leafwing
Artist
Robert Bales
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Photograph - Photo
Description
One of the many butterflies at the Boise Zoo Butterflies Bloom Exhibit . It is a great place to view many different types of butterflies. You can walk through a greenhouse-like mesh enclosure with hundreds of butterflies. Zoo Boise Director Steve Burns says the butterflies come from Costa Rica. It gives the farmers in that area the opportunity to make money off of the forests rather than have to cut it down and ranch it so it is a great way for those folks to keep the rainforests intact and still make money for their families.
Memphis, described by Jacob H�bner in 1819, is a Neotropical nymphalid butterfly genus in the subfamily Charaxinae.
There are 61 species in the genus. All are Neotropical and the undersides of the wings closely resemble dead leaves.
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August 23rd, 2016
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