29 September 2013

Jamamaj

This is my favourite butterfly bellow.  Although it looks like a moth are people wrongly mistaken. Jamamai  (Antheraea yamamai) is our ( European) biggest butterfly. The width of wings can be over 15 cm long. Jamamaj originally came from Asia in 1866 since they tried to produce silk from their cocoon.




P.S.: The picture was taken just at the end of august.

By Ines

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