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Pearl Crescent? - Phyciodes tharos
Copyright © 2006 E Moon

Pearl Crescent? - Phyciodes tharos
Williamson County, Texas, USA
May 26, 2006
Size: ~ 3 cm
Flying and perched in dappled sun and a shaft of sunlight--it didn't help that a brisk breeze was gusting through the woods now and then, moving the leaf the butterfly was on and also moving this leaf from sunlight to shadow and back.

But here's the underwing shot.

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Contributed by E Moon on 26 May, 2006 - 2:50pm
Last updated 3 June, 2006 - 3:51pm

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