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Aug 05, 2020 16:42 |  #406

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Aug 06, 2020 00:00 |  #407

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Thank you for the feedback. Posed just briefly enough.


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cabbage white
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Aug 11, 2020 18:23 |  #413

Painted Lady
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Aug 13, 2020 15:22 |  #415

orange sulphur

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Aug 22, 2020 13:08 |  #417

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Aug 26, 2020 06:20 |  #418

One from the garden, no idea what flavour it is...

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Aug 26, 2020 07:14 |  #419

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One from the garden, no idea what flavour it is...

Neither do I but it's beautiful butterfly. And on a butterfly bush!


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Peacock butterfly, aptly named with the eyes on the wing.(Aglais io)




  
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