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Pump - It - Up
By Diohio
19 Mar, 2008
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The Monarch butterfly is still slowly pumping the fluid into his wings. He successfully 'zipped' his proboscis and it's neatly curled up. You can already see that this Monarch is a male because of the dark spot on his hindwing vein. Actually both butterflies are male.
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