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Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) drying wings on Joe-Pye Weed leaf in the final stage of its transformation shortly after emerging from chrysalis. North America.
Thomas Kitchin & Victoria Hurst/leesonphoto. All Rights Reserved.
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