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Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly

Limenitis arthemis

Photo by MickGrant
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Field Notes

Description:

Found in my back garden - Upperside is blue to blue-green with pretty iridescence on the outer part of the hindwing.

Habitat:

Gardens and deciduous or mixed forests, moist uplands, valley bottoms

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