Gynandromorphic butterfly!

[theweaselking]

EDIT: Apparently I also meant "GARGANTUNOMUNDIC"

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Please shrink or cut that picture-- it's much wider than my screen.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just noticed that. Sorry.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

What is that, a tranny butterfly?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Nope. Genetic mutation in the embryo after the first division caused on cell to be X (female) and the other to be XX or XXX (male).

And each of the original two cells carried the mutation along. The butterfly is *literally* female on the left side and male on the right.

Click the image for more!

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Cool! So not a tranny, more of a bilaterally symmetrical hermaphrodite. A Hermy?

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

"so what'd you do with it?"

"Oh we killed and mounted it later that day."