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Viceroy Butterfly on Common Milkweed

Viceroy Butterfly on Common Milkweed
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2006 Photograph, Viceroy Butterfly (Limenitis archippus) on Common Milkweed, Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia © 2007.

This butterfly is a Batesian mimic of the foul tasting (to a bird) Monarch Butterfly and is usually seen sitting on leaves instead of flowers.

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