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Skipper butterfly

Family Hesperiidae

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bayucca
Certainly it is doing that! Most of butterflies are not feeding nectar or pollen, but sipping rotten fruits and the dumpy rest...
bayucca
Maybe underestimation of brake path?
Small Wonders
What's going on here? Sorry, I am viewing from mobile & I can just barely see the proboscis reaching underneath... ???

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Borboletas do Parana - Butterflies from Parana, Brazil
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2012

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