#insectpic

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Painted Lady feasting on catmint.

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A Goldenrod Soldier beetle climbs to the top of a wild sunflower.

Then, leaping into the air, it flies off to some new place, before the end of summer ends its life. 

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Orange Sulphur on wild Midwestern clover.

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Budding butterfly weed and a bee's bottom show me that some small parts of this world are still beautiful.

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Honeybees on beebalm make things seem better. 

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A Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly with a damaged wing.

Towards the end of summer, many butterflies possess injuries such as these.   

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I see so few butterflies this season. Where have they all gone?

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An Eastern Tailed-Blue is actually quite white on its underside.