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A monarch butterfly collects pollen from a flower in a garden in Auburn.
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A monarch butterfly collects pollen from a flower in a garden in Auburn.
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An azure butterfly pollinates a yellow clintonia spotted during a flower walk at Walden Park Preserve in Bangor.
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NORTH BERWICK, ME - JULY 25: Patricia Cluff has created ever expanding waystations for Monarch butterflies at her home in North Berwick. (Staff photo by Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
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DAYTON, ME - SEPTEMBER 2: Joe and Mary Caruso take photos while walking through a field of sunflowers at Pumpkin Valley Farm in Dayton on Monday, September 2, 2019. Monday was the last day of a four-day sunflower festival at the farm, which also has a corn maze designed in the pattern of a sunflower. (Staff photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
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A Swallowtail butterfly feeds on nectar in Hallowell. The colorful insects also spread pollen collected from flowers, helping seed a variety of different species.
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An American Lady butterfly collects pollen from a garden on Mill Street in Auburn Thursday afternoon.
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Bees collect pollen from a sunflower in a garden on Mill Street in Auburn.
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A butterfly rests on a flower following a thunderstorm in Hallowell Wednesday afternoon.
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A butterfly uses it's long tongue to work on a flower in the Adopt A Spot garden on Mill Street in Auburn Monday night.
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A monarch butterfly collects pollen from a flower in a garden on Mill Street in Auburn Thursday afternoon.
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DAYTON, ME - SEPTEMBER 2: Joe and Mary Caruso walk through a field of sunflowers at Pumpkin Valley Farm in Dayton on Monday, September 2, 2019. Monday was the last day of a four-day sunflower festival at the farm, which also has a corn maze designed in the pattern of a sunflower. (Staff photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
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An American Lady butterfly collects pollen from a garden on Mill Street in Auburn Thursday afternoon.
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Staff photo by Joe Phelan
A catepillar and monarch butterfly sit on a wild aster on Tuesday morning in Manchester. It and several bees were buzzing around the pink flowers along Route 202.
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NORTH BERWICK, ME - JULY 25: Patricia Cluff has created ever expanding waystations for Monarch butterflies at her home in North Berwick. A Monarch butterfly flies to a landing spot in Cluffís swamp milkweed. (Staff photo by Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
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GARDINER, ME - AUGUST 9: A Monarch Butterfly extends Monday August 9, 2021 a proboscis to suck pollen from a plant on the Gardiner waterfront along the Kennebec River. Flower beds abutting the river that are cultivated by the volunteer brigade of Gardiner Gardners have become a natural magnet for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds as the plants have blossomed. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
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A monarch butterfly feeds on flowers in front of Portland Head Light at Fort Williams Park in late July 2021.
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NORTH BERWICK, ME - JULY 25: Patricia Cluff has created ever expanding waystations for Monarch butterflies at her home in North Berwick. A Monarch butterfly flies to a landing spot in Cluffís swamp milkweed. (Staff photo by Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
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3353# 01butterlfy BENTON, MAINE SEPTEMBER 10, 2020, A butterfly is shown with sunflowers in Benton, Maine Thursday September 10, 2020. (Staff photo by Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel.
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Patricia Cluff has created ever expanding waystations for Monarchs at her home in North Berwick. A Monarch butterfly lands on swamp milkweed next to a Monarch caterpillar.
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STAFF PHOTO BY GREGORY REC -- Wednesday, October 13, 1999 -- A butterfly alights on a flower in Kittery on Wednesday.
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An American Lady butterfly collects pollen from a garden on Mill Street in Auburn.
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