It's butterfly season!
 

<font face="Courier New">My Zilker Botanical Garden trips are numbered, but boy was the butterfly garden spunky yesterday. A bit breezy, but worth the challenge to capture these wonderfully colored butterflies.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New">All captured with a Canon EOS 30D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro lens, and this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/motleypixel/sets/72157607791530429/" target="_blank">DIY Ring-Flash.</a></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New">#1 Queen (Danaus gilippus)</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2922608199_0a054fc1d7_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New">#2 Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly (Battus philenor)</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2922607607_3b324ce45b_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New">#3 Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/2922607243_e724afb4d5_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New">#4 Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex cf. flavovestita)</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2922605797_c8748af4b8_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New">#5 Hedgehog Fly (Scotiptera sp, undescribed, Tachinidae)</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2922608517_265abdfc03_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New">#6 Hedgehog Fly (Scotiptera sp, undescribed, Tachinidae)</font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2922608831_0556ca0912_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New">-Roy</font></p>
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