Insects and Spiders

Butterfly Magic

It looks like this butterfly is hanging upside-down on a blossom that is suspended mid air. What you can't see is the single line of spider web by which the blossom is hanging. I had no idea the photo would be like this until I saw it on my computer. What are the odds? The butterfly is a female gray hairstreak, you can tell by the fact that her abdomen is all gray with no orange. She is tiny and apparently does not weigh enough to knock the blossom off the thread of silk. No photoshop or rotation here, just incredible luck on my part.
Female Gray Hairstreak Hodges#4336 (Strymon melinus)
Salvia x greggii ‘Raspberry Delight’

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