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Some butterflies that I've seen around along with my best attempt at identification.

I find butterflies hard to photograph because they can be kind of skittish and I like taking pictures really close up, so I have to sneak up on them or predict where they will land. Sometimes you can tell when they are trying to drink from a patch of mud and you can get set up by it for a picture.

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Papilio glaucus (Eastern tiger swallowtail), dark morph and yellow morph females.

Ocola skipper, or brazilian skipper, or salt marsh skipper, a bunch of these species look almost the same.

Epargyreus clarus, silver spotted skipper. I see these all over the place.

Junonia coenia, common buckeye

Epimecis hortaria, tulip tree beauty. I know its a moth not a butterfly who cares its still a lepidopteran

Agraulis vanillae, gulf fritillary

Hemaris thysbe (hummingbird clearwing) - I LOVE POLLINATING MOTHS!!!!! This one landed on my face for a second after taking this picture >/////<

Zale genus I think

idk

Enallagma geminatum - I know its a damselfly not a lepidopteran who cares it still has fly in the name

Strymon melinus, gray hairstreak

Thorybes pylades (northern cloudywing) (i think). it is also possible that these photos are of two different species.

Vanessa atalanta, red admiral

Phoebis sennae, cloudless sulfur

Possibly another type of sulfur

Hylephila phyleus, fiery skipper

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