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Image of Heliopetes ericetorum Boisduval 1852

Image of Heliopetes ericetorum Boisduval 1852

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Unexpected find on a cultivated native Mallow in the Native Garden. A female, possibly ovipositing in some of these images. Common Checkered Skippers are very numerous in urban gardens here; but I'd never seen one of these before in Sonoma county. Perhaps I'm not looking closely...

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