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Photo by DarleneKBoggs
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Field Notes

Description:

Small butterfly, wings about 1 in. These photos are all of the same butterfly, the color changed as it moved & the light sturck it from different angles. All the time it was on the ground, the hind wings were "sawing" up & down rapidly

Habitat:

Pine forest with manzanita & bitterbrush

Species ID Suggestions

Thicket hairstreak

Callophrys spinetorum

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KarenL
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Comments (7)
DarleneKBoggs
Thanks for all your comments and the ID! This was the first of these I've seen & I was fascinated by it's wing movement & the color changes
LarryGraziano
Great find Darlene! It is definitely a hairstreak like Alice says. You've been here a while but....Welcome to Project Noah!

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The Bug Chicks Sofa Safari
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Northwestern Ecosystem
Photographed
PublishedJuly 9, 2012

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