Blow Through Panti

[Elizabeth]

Noticed that this particular Mottled Imigrant has a "double barrel" proboscis...

Is this a characteristics of this species?

Read that the butterfly proboscis is make up of 2 lobes that the insect must fuse together soon after eclosure to make it work like a drinking straw.
Have seen my freshly eclosed butterflies (Lime Butts, Common Mormons and Common Mimes) coil and uncoil the 2 lobes separately. Just wondering if your Mottled Imigrant is a freshly eclosed one or can the butterflies do that all through their lives.

-Elizabeth

[Common Mime]

Was watching the program on Arts Central. Indeed, the newly emerged butterfly has two semi-cylinder and they will be zipped to form the tube-form proboscis to suck liquid.

Interesting progrram for a non-SCV subscriber.

[Birdwing]

Was watching the program on Arts Central. Indeed, the newly emerged butterfly has two semi-cylinder and they will be zipped to form the tube-form proboscis to suck liquid.

Interesting progrram for a non-SCV subscriber.

Is the title of the show "Life in the Undergrowth" by David Attenborough?

[Silverstreak]

Here is a closeup and cross section view of the proboscis

[Common Rose]

Was watching the program on Arts Central. Indeed, the newly emerged butterfly has two semi-cylinder and they will be zipped to form the tube-form proboscis to suck liquid.

Interesting progrram for a non-SCV subscriber.

saw that too... i think it's "Life in the Undergrow".