Cleaning the pool this morning, I found a drowned butterfly floating, wings closed & nothing moving, on the surface along with a few other insects. Marion decided to fish it out with a broom and leave it in the sun to see if it was really dead. A few minutes later, it was standing up drying its wings!We call this type 'back-to-front butterfly'(don't know its proper name) because of its camouflage. The tail has got the same markings as the head and it has tail streamers that imitate the attennae. The idea is that a predator attacks the wrong end and the butterfly is in the right position to escape.
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