A striped monarch caterpillar crawls along a milkweed leaf while an adult butterfly flies above the flower buds.

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Monarch Caterpillar on Milkweed

A striped monarch caterpillar crawls along a milkweed leaf while an adult butterfly flies above the flower buds.

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Orange wings above one green leaf

Focus on the flying butterfly and the leaf beneath the caterpillar.

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Orange butterfly above an uncolored striped caterpillar on a single green leaf, surrounded by white plants. — A digital example of this practice; uncolored areas are intentional.

1. Orange · inner wing panels
2. Green · supporting leaf

Fill the butterfly’s inner wing panels orange. Preserve the black veins and borders, and keep every small border spot white.
Color only the long foreground leaf supporting the caterpillar green; keep its fine veins visible.

Orange wings hover above one green leaf. Caterpillar, other leaves, flowers, buds and background remain uncolored.

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