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ofpaperandponies:

biomedicalephemera:

From a late 19th century promotional booklet by Chase & Sanborn, importers of tea and coffee. 

Or perhaps I don’t have any Monarchs yet…
“Banded Red Butterfly” is an old common name of the Monarch Butterfly. It was also used for the Viceroy butterfly, but they have that one additional stripe on the bottom wings - what we have here is a Viceroy.
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lunar-danse:

‘Insecten-Belustigung’ (Insect Amusements) by AJ Rösel von Rosenhof
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magicalnaturetour:

Abundance of blues. Photographer: Yuri Okhlopkov :)
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insectlove:

fuckyeahmoths: Oospila venezuelata
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