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Aug 4, 2013 9:10 AM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
Here's a few I took at the museum today...First up is a Monarch

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Then, a Long-Tailed Skipper

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A Zebra Longwing on firebush

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Cloudless Sulphur on Mexican petunias (don't know why we still have those flowers - evil, invasive things)

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Then, I came home and saw this skipper sunning himself

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And my usual Duskywing was on the porterweed

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And finally, a Spicebush Swallowtail on the plumbagos! All in all, a good day!

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