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Monday, 10 August 2015

[Off the Trail] Flowers, moth, butterflies

Been visiting family for the last several days.  There are a lot of zennias and a butterfly bush here, and they do their job as advertised.

Some naked ladies are out there too:



This is (I think) a tiger swallowtail.


And here it is from the back:


I think these guys are pretty cool - the "hummingbird moth" or "flying lobster", mostly known as the snowberry clearwing.  They look for all the world like bumblebees until you realize "hey, that's a moth!"


Some zennias:




And some more butterflies.  I don't know what this one is and it wouldn't open its wings so I could see it better:


A spicebush swallowtail:


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