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Eastern Tailed Blue?
Copyright © 2005 Lynette Schimming

Eastern Tailed Blue?
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
September 3, 2005
Size: about 15 mm
I think I first noticed it had become a chrysalis on Sept. 3. I could be wrong about that. I have it in a butterfly container now, awaiting emergence.

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Eastern Tailed Blue? Eastern Tailed Blue? Eastern Tailed Blue?
Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 13 September, 2005 - 3:04pm
Last updated 27 December, 2008 - 1:36pm

Sorry,
it never emerged.
… Lynette Schimming, 14 March, 2009 - 6:56pm

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