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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 13, 2007

could this one be Lasiommata megera ?

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 13, 2007

another pic.

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 13, 2007

It looks a lot like the Speckled Wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://arglist.com/photos/20050611-001s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://arglist.com/cgi-bin/image%3Fgallery%3Dlepidoptera%26name%3D20050611-001&h=498&w=752&sz=52&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=RQHN39o-7B-9_M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=141&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpararge%2Baegeria%2Bbutterflies%2B%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Aug 13, 2007

I agree that it is the Speckled Wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria). We have a page for it here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/209/
and would welcome yopur picture,

Kennedy

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 14, 2007

Thank you fly-girl and Kennedy!
I'll add them to the BF.

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