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I arrive at Bathtub Spring and find quite a few of these little white butterflies playing in the moist area by the spring

5408-butterflies.jpg A claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsThere's not much surface algae in the basin at Bathtub Spring, but there is a lot of heavy, slippery growth deeper in the waterA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsThere's not much surface algae in the basin at Bathtub Spring, but there is a lot of heavy, slippery growth deeper in the waterA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsThere's not much surface algae in the basin at Bathtub Spring, but there is a lot of heavy, slippery growth deeper in the waterA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsThere's not much surface algae in the basin at Bathtub Spring, but there is a lot of heavy, slippery growth deeper in the waterA claret cup cactus grows in a boulder pile near Bathtub Spring, Mid Hills, Mojave National PreserveThumbnailsThere's not much surface algae in the basin at Bathtub Spring, but there is a lot of heavy, slippery growth deeper in the water

I've seen these around Mojave Desert springs before, possibly Northern White-Skipper butterflies.