Mounted Butterflies | Idea sp. 3.

SPECIES  Idea idea , Idea lynceus , Ideopsis gaura perkana

ORIGIN   Indonesia / Malaysia

FRAME   31.5 x 28.5 x D5cm. Made from recycled products. Black

DESCRIPTION  AKA rice paper or The Lucky Butterfly. So named because it feeds on a poisonous host plant which makes it inedible to predators. Appears mostly white with lovely black vein markings on   wings. Their flight is slow, weak and fluttery. They glide a lot giving members of this genus the other name of paperkite. Often gliding above the tree canopy but every now and then moving lower down in   forest openings.