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Gray hairstreak on whorled milkweed - Strymon melinus
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Gray hairstreak on whorled milkweed - Strymon melinus
Near Letts, Muscatine County, Iowa, USA
August 19, 2019
Nectaring on whorled milkweed in a reconstructed prairie at Land of the Swamp White Oak.
Contributed by DMaxson on 20 August, 2019 - 8:20am
Last updated 20 August, 2019 - 2:44pm

Moved to Strymon melinus.
Moved from ID Request.

Gray Hairstreak.
… Ken Allison, 20 August, 2019 - 9:15am

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