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Killer butterflies
Copyright © 2014 John F. Carr

Killer butterflies
Shawnee State Park, Scioto County, Ohio, USA
May 20, 2014
Apparently they ate a deer. I recognize some crescents at left and a Platydracus beetle or something similar in the middle. This was a busy place. Video of the commotion on Flickr.
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Contributed by John F. Carr on 20 May, 2014 - 7:14pm
Last updated 30 August, 2014 - 4:15pm

scarab
I spy what looks like an Onthophagus hecate scarab in the bottom center.
… Even Dankowicz, 2 July, 2015 - 3:05pm login or register to post comments

Looks like your assemblage includes
Three male Silvery Checkerspots (Chlosyne nycteis), one male Pearl Cresent (Phyciodes tharos - or - is it a Northern in Ohio? - has prominent orange antenna tips), one male Northern Cloudywing (Thorybes pylades), and one probably male Northern Pearly Eye (Lethe anthedon). The moth is a Mournful Thyris (Thyris sepulchralis). For the beetle try Gold-and-brown Rove Beetle Ontholestes cingulatus. The fly in the lower right quadrant - not a clue [shot in the dark - maybe family Heleomyzidae].
… David J. Ferguson, 11 November, 2014 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 30 August, 2014 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

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