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  • Where conditions were right (neither too much nor too little sun, for instance up near the house itself) a scumble of colors occurred in Spring, attracting swarms of bees and butterflies — among these: Silver-spotted Skippers (Epargyreus clarus clarus) and American Coppers (Lycaena phlaes americana) — in abundance.

    The light that draws the flower James Greer 2011

  • The pictures of the dead Epargyreus clarus I photographed yesterday were still on the camera's CompactFlash memory card when I mistakenly erased them last nite.

    Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008

  • Last and least, a dead Epargyreus clarus silver-spotted skipper.

    Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008

  • The pictures of the dead Epargyreus clarus I photographed yesterday were still on the camera's CompactFlash memory card when I mistakenly erased them last nite.

    I waited patiently for 71582788 minutes AYDIN 2008

  • Last and least, a dead Epargyreus clarus silver-spotted skipper.

    Sunday's butterflies AYDIN 2008

  • ORIGIN Middle English in the sense glory, divine splendor : from Latin claritas, from clarus 'clear.'

    Mindfulness, Clarity and Self-Awareness BunnyKissd 2007

  • Tundatur mediana; et si sanguis apparet clarus et ruber, supprimatur; aut si yere, si niger aut crassus permittatur fluere pro viribus aegri, dein post 8. vel.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aedes Orientem spectantes vir nobilissimus, inhabitet, et curet ut sit aer clarus, lucidus, odoriferus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quo die vir generosus et doctrina clarus, Samuel Johnson, LL.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Hubertus Walterus Sarisburiensis Episcopus, vir probus, ingenioque ac pietate clarus, inter pr鎐ipuos vnus eorum erat, qui post Richardum regem expugnandorum Saracenorum gratia in Syriam proficiscebantur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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