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Butterfly labor

Category: Insects etc.

For Labor Day weekend, a Cabbage Butterfly effortlessly going about the business of pollination, its working life only a few weeks long.

Taken on a recent trip to Leamington, Ontario, near the southernmost tip of Canada, on the shores of Lake Erie.
Butterfly labor

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Butterfly labor

  • Pete Rogan | August 31st, 2007 at 8:56 am

    The heavy blues and greens of late, full August contrast with the light-green veined wings (holed by hard work) of an insect that seems half butterfly, half bee. Poised between the worlds of dream and toil, this last day of August.

  • Rick | August 31st, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    Nice description, Pete, as summer ends.
    The spots are not holes, by the way, and help identify this as a Cabbage Butterfly.

  • Rick | September 9th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    I’m not sure if it’s a Honeysuckle. Hopefully, somebody can identify it.

  • BrotherBob | September 9th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    Great Photo. Is that a Honeysuckle flower that it’s headed for?

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