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Question Mark
The Question Mark Butterfly has a silvery mark like a question mark on the hind wings.
They are found in forests and shrubbery areas,
Especially in southern Canada and the U.S.A., but not in the Southwest or Pacific Coast.
The larva eat foliage of elms, blackberry, nettle, hops, and basswood, the adult butterflies fly from June until fall.
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Common Blue
The Common Blue Butterfly is found all over North America.
The Common Blue can be found in your garden.
When army ants discover the larva, they take it down to their chambers.
Then they carry it to the hatchery, where it eats the ant's eggs.
The ants cover the Common Blue larva and suck honey dew from it.
It crawls out of the ant hill and makes a chrysalis on a leaf.
The Common Blue comes out of the chrysalis, and has to unfold its wings, wait until the sun comes out, so its wings will dry and can fly.
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Common HairStreak
The common Hairstreak is light gray on ventral wing with a few red and blue markings on ventral hindwing and one distinct row of dark and white markings on ventral surfaces of both fore and hind-wings.
The adults often are found in backyard flowers.
The hairstreak flies from February to November.
larvae are often found on cultivated Hibiscus flowers or leaves,also Malva, hops, false indigo, Nolina,and Polygonum.
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Common Wood Nymph
The Common Wood Nymph's wing span is 1 3/4 - 3 inches (4.5 - 7.6 cm).
Wings are brown. Upperside of forewing has 2 large yellow-ringed eyespots. Lowerside of hindwing has a number of small eyespots.
Southern and coastal butterflies are larger and have a yellow or yellow-orange patch on the outer part of the forewing.
Males patrol for females with a dipping flight through the vegetation.
In summer, females lay eggs singly on host plant leaves. Caterpillars hatch but do not feed, instead hibernating until spring.
Caterpillar feed on Purpletop and other grasses.
Adult's feed on Rotting fruit, flower nectar.
The Common wood Nymph can be found in Large, sunny, grassy areas including prairies, open meadows, bogs, and old fields.
They Range from Southern Canada and the continental United States except for most of the Southwest and Texas, southern Florida, and northern Maine.
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pearl Crescent
Wing span is 1 1/4 - 1 3/4 inches (3.2 - 4.5 cm).
Males usually have black antennal knobs. Upperside is orange with black borders; the Underside of hindwing has a dark marginal patch containing a light-colored crescent.
Males patrol open areas for females. Eggs are laid in small batches on underside of host plant leaves.
Flies from April-November in the north, throughout the year in the Deep South and Mexico.
Caterpillar's feed on several species of smooth-leaved true asters including Aster pilosus, A. texanus, and A. laevis.
Adult's feed on nectar from a great variety of flowers including dogbane, swamp milkweed, shepherd's needle, asters, and winter cress.
Look for Pearl crescents in Open areas such as pastures, road edges, vacant lots, fields, open pine woods.
migrate south through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and southeastern California to Mexico; east to southern Ontario and all the eastern United States.
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