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Butterflies and Skippers

How does one become a butterfly? she asked. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Anonymous

Skippers are the equivalent of the warblers of the bird world, sometimes very difficult to identify.

Brush-foots

Coral Hairstreak on Butterflyweed

Gossamer-wings

Metalmarks

Skippers

Newly emerged Zebra Swallowtail (Eurytides-marcellus) on sandy road

Swallowtails

Whites and Sulphurs