Mating Queen Butterflies
A pair of queen butterflies "getting busy" in a field near Edinburg, Texas on a cool December afternoon. These butterflies may look like monarch butterflies, but this act of mimicry tricks would-be predators think that they are toxic like monarchs when in reality they are not.
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Danaus, Danaus gilippus, Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Insecta, La Sal Del Rey, Lepidoptera, Lower Rio Grande NWR, Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge, NWR, National Wildlife Refuge, Nymphalidae, RGV, Texas, animal, arthropod, autumn, bug, butterfly, color, fall, insect, invertebrate, mating, milkweed butterfly, mimic, nature, orange, reproduction, sex, wild, wildlife
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