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Useless’s field notes: in the meadow

A Peacock butterfly can hiss by rubbing its wing veins together. I can squeak on a whiteboard. Nobody has ever run away from it.

— U. (tap me for another)

Thanks for fluttering by. If a butterfly lands near you, look, don’t touch: its wing scales rub off.

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