Butterflies – Red Cracker – Hamadryas amphinome
Photographed at the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls, Ontario in 2009.
The Crackers includes 20 member of the species Hamadryas. They all share a calico pattern of their upperwing.  The pattern enables them to be well camouflaged when resting on tree trunks in the neotropical rainforest world that they inhabit. They are called Crackers because the males of the species can make a crackling sound described in some sources as the sound of crackling bacon.
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