So easy a butterfly can do it! Reading the instructions:
Using the pliers:
Continue readingEnjoy it while you can, butterfly, I already bought an innertube.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 August 2012.
-jsq
Update: Jane Osborn has identified this as a Gulf Fritillary, Agraulis vanillae.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 June 2010.
It looks to me like a common buckeye, Junonia coenia. Amusingly, there’s no record of it in Lowndes County.
I’m thinking this one is a Black Swallowtail, Papilio polyxenes. Also no record of it in Lowndes County.
Any butterfly experts out there?