While I was relaxing on my hotel room patio in Mae Salong in the mountains of Northern Thailand, I serendipitously discovered these two beautiful butterflies mating in a nearby tree. The male and female are carbon copies of each other and are perfectly symmetrical. In most butterflies, there is marked sexual dimorphism between the male and the female; in the case of this species, the red-base jezebel, there is “little or none” to the naked eye. The red-base jezebel is relatively common in Thailand and throughout Southeast Asia.

I was so very fortunate to capture this pair in the act of copulation!

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