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Gulf fritillary in the garden 2025-05-25

Update 2025-06-02: Maypops 2025-05-30.

This Gulf fritillary was frittering away in the garden.

A Dione vanillae, at about 3 inches wingspan, looks small beside the cucumber plants. Continue reading →

So easy a butterfly can do it! Reading the instructions:

Using the pliers:

Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 August 2012.

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OK, lepidopterists, what kind of butterfly is this?

Update: Jane Osborn has identified this as a Gulf Fritillary, Agraulis vanillae.

Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 June 2010.

Or is it a moth?

Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia.

On brick:

It looks to me like a common buckeye, Junonia coenia. Amusingly, there’s no record of it in Lowndes County.

On lantana:

I’m thinking this one is a Black Swallowtail, Papilio polyxenes. Also no record of it in Lowndes County.

Any butterfly experts out there?

Black and white striped butterfly on flowering lantana:

Picture by Gretchen, 13 August 2008.