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Sleepy Orange in Copula - Abaeis nicippe - male - female
Copyright © 2011 Roy Cohutta Brown

Sleepy Orange in Copula - Abaeis nicippe - Male Female
West of Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, USA
August 18, 2011
Sleepy Orange, Abaeis [= Eurema] nicippe, female & male | Dougherty County, Southwest Georgia, USA | 18 August 2011

This pair was on a weed just a few inches above the ground. Several males attempted to intervene while this pair was joined. Habitat was a fairly open weedy area alongside a dirt-road.
Contributed by Roy Cohutta Brown on 18 August, 2011 - 4:40pm

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