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A cloudless sulphur butterfly, Phoebis sennae, feeds on sunflower nectar. Its genus name is derived from Phoebe, the sister of Apollo, a god of Greek and Roman mythology, and sennae is for the genus Senna, to which many of the cloudless sulphur's larval host plants belong.
Photo by Peggy Greb.
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