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Monday Morning Mystery 070113
With the annual Tom Burr Memorial Celery Farm Butterfly Walk less than three weeks away, I thought I'd start running some butterfly mysteries.
This skipper was taken last month at the Walker Avenue Wetlands in Wayne. What is it?
The bigger mystery: How can we be in July already?
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Not Mourning Cloak, it’s a Skipper??
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True about the biggest mystery!! Not sure about the butterfly, Mourning Cloak?
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Not Mourning Cloak, it’s a Skipper??
Peggy
True about the biggest mystery!! Not sure about the butterfly, Mourning Cloak?