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Photo #21655: Apatura schrenckii

Male

Apatura schrenckii

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Base gallery. Upperside. Alive insect.

Photo, and identified by: Irina Nikulina. Image without retouching at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2009-08-17 13:30:00, Russia, Primorskiy Krai , Shkotovskiy distr., Anisimovka

Photographer's comment: It is known that Apaturinae are used to feed on carrion and mud, and after rain - on the fireplaces - with great pleasure. But such a picture impressed the Moscow guest in the Far Fast forest very much) Apatura schrenckii landed for a long time at the remains of one of the most dangerous inhabitants of the taiga - Ussuri copperhead snake from the family of rattlesnakes, who was crushed by the car wheels (. Frequentative clicking of the shutter did not scare it, Apatura schrenckii was very fond of "delicacy"

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03.04.2013 0:30, Igor Sakhno

Cool! Time to make special section "rare shot" (as it was in the 1970s in that TV-show "In the world of animals").

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