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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Imperial Blue butterfly caterpillar



A caterpillar of the Imperial Blue butterfly (Jalmenus evagoras) is here being not attacked but tended and protected by Iridomyrmex ants, drunk on the caterpillar's secretions.
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