Facing Life's Dangers

This butterfly landed on tiny flowers long enough for me to capture this image. I noticed that the lower wings were quite battered. There are so many dangers butterflies face in their short lives. Predators can try to grasp their wings or butterflies can bump into dense shrubbery to access flowers for nectar or to find host plants to lay their eggs. Any contact their wings make with another surface will cause scales to be rubbed off...and these do not regrow.

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