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Monarch & Viceroy Butterfly Dome
$ 50.16
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Description
This is a custom made item featuring a maleMonarch
(below),
Danaus plexippus
and a male
Viceroy
(above)
,
Limenitis archippus
. The Monarch is famed for its long migrations into Mexico each year. The Viceroy mimics the colors and pattern of the Monarch as a measure to avoid being eaten since the Monarch is very distasteful to predators. On the back side is a female
Indian Monarch
,
Danaus genutia
which ranges across all of Indo-China and the south Pacific including Australia. It too has an unpleasant taste to predators. The butterflies are perfect and are mounted on real driftwood. Each dome is a "one of a kind" due to differences in the driftwood and variation in the butterflies. The dome is mounted on a 6 inch wide walnut base. The dome itself is 4.5 inches wide and 6 inches high. Each dome comes with a colored brochure describing the natural history of the individual butterflies.