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Butterflies display vibrant colors in Beatty

Richard Stephens/Special to the Pahrump Valley Times A painted lady butterfly finds a landing spot on a sunflower in the Beatty community. The sunflower was in a local yard.
Richard Stephens/Special to the Pahrump Valley Times A painted lady butterfly as seen in Beatty recently. The sunflower landed on a sunflower in a yard.
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Here’s a look at painted lady butterflies in the sunflowers as seen recently in Beatty.

The butterflies found landing spots on sunflowers in a yard within the community.

Richard Stephens, a freelance writer living in Beatty, was able to snap these photos of the butterflies before they moved on to their next landing spots.

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