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Butterfly or moth? on Basil flower
#123082 Sep 3rd, 2007 at 07:42 AM
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I'm not absolutely sure if this is a butterfly??? why



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Hmmmmmmmmm I just noticed an insect under a leaf rolz

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Re: Butterfly or moth? on Basil flower
angelblossom #123101 Sep 3rd, 2007 at 08:30 AM
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Let me look in my butterfly book.....

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Wrennie #123103 Sep 3rd, 2007 at 08:34 AM
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Looks like a cabbage white to me

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Re: Butterfly or moth? on Basil flower
Wrennie #123105 Sep 3rd, 2007 at 08:35 AM
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I had a feeling it was something like that Wrennie!

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angelblossom #123126 Sep 3rd, 2007 at 09:42 AM
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I's a gonna say a Cabbage Butterfly, too. Stay away from that insect under the leaf! That is a horrendous member of the grasshopper family, the terrifying Eye-Sucker Hopper! It will jump on your face and suck ALL the fluid out of your eyeballs until they are dry, shrivelled, raisins in your eye sockets! nervous

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