This is a Viceroy butterfly...they try to look like a Monarch so they won't get eaten either. (Monarchs are poisonous or distasteful to their predators due to a chemical found in milkweed, the plant they eat when they are a caterpillar.) This one looked like it was considered tasty to someone because it had a lot of nips taken out of its wings. Amazing how they can still fly with large chunks of their wings gone.
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