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Monarch with bumblebee

Monarch with bumblebee

Bumblebee coming up on a monarch butterfly on a Mexican sunflower.

Bumblebee coming up on a monarch butterfly on a Mexican sunflower.
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Canon EOS R

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Aperture f/6.3 ISO 640 Shutter 1/1600 Focal Length 173/1

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location

Harper Woods, Michigan, US

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upload_date

Aug, 2019

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