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Mourning Cloak Butterfly

Nymphalis antiopa

Photo by silentheroes
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Field Notes

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This caterpillar had gotten caught in a thick spiderweb and then formed a cocoon there...So I cut him out of the web and attached him to the inside of an empty cardboard box.

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Mourning Cloak - Nymphalis antiopa - Overview, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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