[Leica] IMG: American Snout Posing as a Dead Leaf

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: American Snout Posing as a Dead Leaf
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:19:09 -0500

The American Snout butterfly has a natural defense mechanism; its 
underside coloring allows it to pose as a dead leaf, and hide in plain 
sight.? This cooperative fellow allowed me to get in very close.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200719-P7192593-2.JPG.html

-- 
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

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