northern crescent butterfly foraging for nectar mountain mint | 
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| Northern crescent butterfly, Phyciodes cocyta, on mountain mint flowers, Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, at the Belding Wildlife Management Area in Vernon, Connecticut. | 
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