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Long-Tailed Skipper - Urbanus proteus
Copyright © 2009 Robert Lord Zimlich

Long-Tailed Skipper - Urbanus proteus
Daphne (Village Point Preserve), Baldwin County, Alabama, USA
October 21, 2009
2009 Edition of my favorite skipper, one that is actually easy to ID
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 23 October, 2009 - 7:54am

It's so beautiful!
Just breathtaking. Great shot, great skipper!
… Mandy Howe, 23 October, 2009 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

 
Says It All
There was never a king like Solomon
Not since the world began
Yet Solomon talked to a butterfly
As a man would talk to a man.

Rudyard Kipling
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 25 October, 2009 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

 
LOVE IT
^
… Mandy Howe, 25 October, 2009 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

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