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Butterflies at Arnolds Landing: Red-spotted Purples

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Red-spotted Purples each and everyone. They love moist asphalt and limestone gravel roads and driveways. I suppose among other attractants, it is moisture and minerals they are after.

They also love to feed on carrion and there are tons of dead animals, grasshoppers, butterflies, other insects, and birds mashed into the cracks and crevices of our highways mile after mile. Then each morning after a fog or dew or after a rain the moisture once again brings the fragrance of sustenance to the olfactory glands of these beautiful creatures.

Hundreds of Red-spotted Purples perish each day from mid-summer through fall on our highways in Adair County each year. However many more escape by riding the air flow over, under and around our vehicles as we speed through their world.

s/Billy Joe Fudge

Thanks so much. When a photo of a butterfly, insect, tree, wildflower -or bird or person's face, for that matter - is posted without identification, we always appreciate identification. This information on the Red-spotted Purples is a perfect addition to the photo description. -EW




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Beautiful Butterfly Trio at Arnolds Landing



2010-09-05 - Photo by Angie Polston Photography. Knifley, KY
Butterfly Trio: "Caught these three fellows at Arnold's Landing in Knifley KY. Butterflies are everywhere down there!" writes Angie Polston with this photo. Selected for CM as a Best of ColumbiaMagazine.com group at Flickr.com
Billy Joe Fudge identifies the butterflies as Red-spotted Purples.

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