bethie
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject: Butterfly Blues |
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Saw this poor butterfly and wondered what was up.
A crab spider was eating him so I let him finish and brought him up to the patio for a photo on a persian shield.
He liked the new spot and stayed. Then I saw a sulphur butterfly flapping in distress. I figured a spider had him too but I just couldn't see it. I started to slip my hand under it figuring the spider would be too busy to bite when I saw this fellow.
He was very hard to see on this manettia vine. It was a bad day for butterflies!
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glendann
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Good photos Bethie.Poor butterflies.Nice to dine out
every now and then.
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eileen
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Marvelous shots Bethie even if the butterflies ended up as lunch for the spider and mantis.
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pondlady
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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More magnificent photos. And all of these on just one day. Between Eileen, Bethie and Kimberly, it is almost sensory overload.
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dooley
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That yellow butterfly looks like the one I was trying to get a picture of yesterday. Do you put a spell on them to get them to sit still? I saw a monarch butterfly the other day with holes in its wings. I thought maybe the grasshoppers had been chewing on it. I never thought of spiders. Dooley
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reggaefan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Great pics everybody has to eat.
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