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An Extraordinary Event of Summer

Tortoiseshells and other butterflies are welcome visitors in Central Oregon

Oh, boy, are we having fun! Right now, during these warm first weeks of July, the California tortoiseshell butterfly, one of the more dashing of the nymphalids, is popping out by the hundreds of thousandsโ€”if not millions โ€”in the foothills of the Cascades, known as the Skyline Forest. This beautiful butterfly has been flitting around […]

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