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gldno1

Butterflies at Last

15 years ago

The last couple of days the phlox have attracted lots of butterflies:



Side view of Red Admiral:






Here two are fluttering side by side:





and a very large, maybe carpenter bee on the vitex:

Click to see them larger in my Picasa Album.

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