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It definitely feels like Fall -- cool, dreary, damp!

Out on the porch today, I finally realized why the Question Mark Butterfly is called that -- it's because of the white marking on the underside of the wings that looks like a question mark! (All this time, I kept thinking it must be the shape of the wings or something -- I finally got it today!

This one landed under the eaves of the porch on a cloudy day. As a I told a friend, the best camera is the one you have, so this is with the phone. It's not as good as I could have maybe gotten with the macro lens on the DSLR, but by the time I got back outside, the butterfly was gone.

You can see the white curve with the dot underneath -- the "question mark":
Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis)

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"O seguro morreu de velho, mas o desconfiado ainda está vivo." -- "The safe one died of old age, but the suspicious one is still living."