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I See A Butterfly Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/15/2024
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
4.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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I was so excited when I saw a butterfly had returned to the same place where we found one a couple of years ago. I hope you want to see it too. 

 

Butterflies (Order: Lepidoptera) are brightly colored flying insects with two pairs of large wings that vary in color and pattern from species to species. Butterfly wings are covered with overlapping rows of tiny scales, a characteristic butterflies share with their fellow lepidopterans, the moths.  A caterpillar’s first meal is its own eggshell. It then spends most of its time eating the leaves of the plant on which it hatched. An adult butterfly uncoils its long, straw-like proboscis to sip nectar from flowers, juice from rotting fruit and water from puddles.  Butterflies are found worldwide except on the continent of Antarctica. Many species migrate to avoid adverse conditions. Most migrate relatively short distances, but monarchs and several other species migrate thousands of miles.  The greatest threats to butterflies are habitat change and loss due to residential, commercial and agricultural development.  Climate change is also threatening species of butterfly.  Exact numbers are not known since there are about 17,500 species of butterflies spread throughout almost the entire world. 

 

I was looking through my geocaching closet and after a methodical search found a foreign entity.  It was a purple butterfly.  Now solve the puzzle and go find that butterfly.

 

 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur trbpnpuvat gbbyobk pna or n ovt uryc naq lbh jvyy arrq n GBGG gb ergevrir gur pnpur.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)