Update: Jane Osborn has identified this as a Gulf Fritillary, Agraulis vanillae.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 June 2010.
Butterfly on Lantana
OK, lepidopterists, what kind of butterfly is this?
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Butterflies
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?
Butterfly on Lantana
Black and white striped butterfly on flowering lantana:
Picture by Gretchen, 13 August 2008.