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For those of you who think butterflies are more beautiful than lichens (no names please) here is a thread where you may post your colorful captures.

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A pixel is worth a thousand words but it takes a thousand words to explain a pixel. g2b2

g2b2, lovely! Here is a zebra swallowtail and another swallowtail (not sure if it is also "zebra").

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Very nice, R.

This is going to be a beautiful thread.

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A pixel is worth a thousand words but it takes a thousand words to explain a pixel. g2b2

g2b2, thank you for starting this thread with a beautiful photo. Here are a couple more: a gray hairstreak (with a friend) and a pearl crescent. I should point out that I look up the butterfly names in the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects & Spiders. I hope others will add their butterfly pictures.

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Here's a fella stopping by for a snack as he makes his way to the south... a lot farther south than here...

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This is really nice and close.

Here is an elegant-looking one I shot at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. I couldn't identify it using my Audubon Society book, nor, so far, from the web. Interesting gear pattern around the eyes (or is that on the head?) To my untrained eyes, it appears to be not too different from g2b2's first butterfly in this thread.

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Paper kite (Idea leuconoe), again taken at the NC Museum of Life and Science.

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Monarch butterfly. There is frost or dew on the flowers.

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RW,
Very nice. Were you using a flash for these photos ?

I vote for dew on the flowers. If it were frost in my neighborhood the flowers would be black.

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A pixel is worth a thousand words but it takes a thousand words to explain a pixel. g2b2