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Danaus plexippus
A Monarch butterfly chrysalis attached to a telephone callbox outside the Visitor Contact Station at Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract. The chrysalis was located near a bed of milkweed plants. I observed Monarch butterfly caterpillars (larvae) feeding on the same milkweed on 26 August 2012.
Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, Maryland USA. Related Resource: http://www.fws.gov/northeast/patuxent/
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Spotted on Sep 2, 2012
Submitted on Sep 19, 2012
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