Snout butterflies again nosing their way through Texas
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UVALDE 'The Return of the Snouts. Shadow of a Snout. Snoutface. If the recent resurgence in Texas of one nature's “nosiest” representatives was to be given a movie title, one of these might do.Many areas of the Lone Star State are once again being invaded by swarms of Libytheana carinenta, more commonly know as the American Snout butterfly, said Dr. Noel Troxclair, Texas AgriLife Extension Service entomologist in Uvalde. “There are tens of millions of these butterflies in this ...
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