0 Common Buckeye Butterfly

 

Animal Unique | Common Buckeye Butterfly | Common Buckeye Butterfly or simply Buckeye is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia and all parts of the United States except the northwest, and is especially common in the south, the California coast, and throughout Central America and Colombia. The sub-species of Junonia coenia bergi is endemic on the island of Bermuda. Its habitat is open areas with low vegetation and some bare ground. This species and its relatives were formerly placed in the genus Precis. 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Arthropoda
Class:     Insecta
Order:     Lepidoptera
Family:     Nymphalidae
Genus:     Junonia
Species:     J. coenia

This butterfly is a beautiful creature that is a must-have in all butterfly gardens. It is a beautiful chestnut brown with 6 bright colors of the eye spots. These small butterflies are fast, energetic flyers that are entertaining to watch as they flutter near the ground. Common Buckeye Butterfly can be difficult to see when hiding because they are very well camouflaged as they folded up their wings, as a dull brown leaf. Luckily, more often than not will be in the sun to show off their colors. 

 

The first broods are born in the southern United States and migrate north. Each subsequent generation will migrate to the north to reach the northern most part of their range, which includes the Great Lake States. These are a beautiful butterfly marked with shades of brown, yellow, orange and brown. The eyespots are probably the most spectacular thing about these butterflies. The eyespots are shades of orange, brown and purple ringed with black or brown. Probably the eyespots are present to deter potential predators. They are not a large butterfly, with only a wingspan of up to 2 3/4 inch, but what they lack in size they more than make good color and human tolerance. These beauties are almost always easily approachable and will often land on us to lick up perspiration. 

 

Adults feed on nectar and to take fluids from mud and wet sand. Men perch on bare ground or low plants, occasionally patrol looking for women, but they are not territorial. The female lays eggs separately on buttons or the upper side of the leaves. The caterpillars are solitary and feed on the leaves, flowers and fruits of the host plant. A variety of (mostly) herbaceous plants are used, including in particular plants in the Snapdragon Family (Scrophulariaceae). These include Snapdragon, Toadflax and Gerardia. Caterpillars eat plants of the plantain family, such as Plantago, and the Acanthus family, including ruellia. Larvae live separately. Adults and some larvae overwinter in southern areas. The doll can not have a resting stage, as in many other butterflies. 

 

The bold pattern of eyespots and white bars on the upper wing surface is distinctive in a large part of its range, but to compare related species in the same sex. The eyespots are likely to frighten or distract predators, especially young birds. Common Buckeye Butterfly has many flights throughout the year, especially with the migration north for the summer. Much of the northern United States is only colonized from the south in the fall of the population. Some of the later broods to move south in autumn. Often Buckeyes exhibit seasonal polyphenism, the summer version of the butterfly is light yellowish ventral wings and is called "linea". The Fall ventral morph has pink wings, and the "rosa" morph.

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Detail: Common Buckeye Butterfly

0 Question Mark Butterfly

 

Animal Unique | Question Mark Butterfly | Question Mark Butterfly is a North American butterfly. It is their name from their wings. The wings of butterflies question mark attached. They live in wooded areas and city parks, or in general in areas where trees and open spaces are provided. His flight from May to September. Their sources of food rotting fruit, tree sap, dung or carrion, but if nothing is available that they visit flowers for nectar. Like other species in the order of Lepidoptera, the Question Mark Butterfly is an insect that four stages of life, also known as holometabolis or complete metamorphosis. These four stages of life are embyro (ova or egg), larva (in this case, caterpillar), pop (pop), and image (or adult / butterfly). 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Arthropoda
Class:     Insecta
Order:     Lepidoptera
Family:     Nymphalidae
Tribe:     Nymphalini
Genus:     Polygonia
Species:     P. interrogationis

The top of the 2.25 -3 inch wings are red-orange with black spots. The color of the upper edge of the wing changes hindrance depending on the time of the year. In the summer Question Mark Butterfly is mostly black with a short tail, the winter form has a longer and a lot of orange, violet-tipped tail. The underside is light brown, the hind wings have a pearl white question mark in the middle, making the butterfly its name.

 

However, Question Mark Butterfly will leave their perches to other insects and even birds to hunt. Females lay eggs only, or stacked on the leaves of plants. These are not always of the caterpillar host plants. When the caterpillars appear, they need a host to feed. Caterpillar host plants include the American and red elm, Hackberry, hops, and nettles. At maturity, will mark adult butterflies feed on rotting fruit, tree sap, carrion, and animal waste. Only if these are not available, they feed on milkweed, and asters. 

 

Larvae of the Question Mark Butterfly, like all lepdiopteran larvae mature through a series of steps called instars. At the end of each instar larva the undergoes a process that apolysis, wherein the epidermis a tough outer layer of a mixture of chitin and specialized proteins released from the softer epidermis under the epidermis, and starts a new Cuticle below. At the end of each instar, the larva molts the old cuticle, and the new cuticle enlarged, for rapid hardening and the development of pigment. Development of butterfly wing patterns begins with the last larval instar. 

 

Once their last instar larvae, the caterpillars pupate in what we call a doll. Unlike most moths, which build cocoons to pupate in the majority of butterfly pupae are "naked", meaning that without the protection of the earth or a cocoon to protect them. After reaching the end of its last larval stage, it sheds its skin (molting or apolysis), and creates a soft fleshy puppets, while on closer observation many parts of the future butterfly may, prior to seeing the new skin hardening. While they are hard, the dolls take the colors of their environment to provide them with excellent camouflage in their environment.

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Detail: Question Mark Butterfly

0 Spicebush Swallowtail

 

Animal Unique | Spicebush Swallowtail | Spicebush Swallowtail is a common black swallowtail butterfly found in North America, also known as the Green-Clouded butterfly. It has two subspecies, Papilio troilus troilus and Papilio troilus ilioneus, mainly found in the Florida peninsula. Spicebush Swallowtail derives its name from its most common host plant, the spicebush, members of the genus Lindera. This predominantly Spicebush Swallowtail is normal in deciduous woods or woody swamps, where they can be found flying low and fast through shaded areas. Women tend to stay in open plains, while males are usually found in wetlands. 

 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Arthropoda
Class:     Insecta
Order:     Lepidoptera
Family:     Papilionidae
Genus:     Papilio
Species:     P. troilus

Typically, the span of a Spicebush Swallowtail varies from 3 to 4 inches. Adults are mostly black / brown in color, with a trademark green-blue (male) or bright blue (female) splotch in the shape of a crescent on the hind wings. The front wing has a border of cream-colored, oval spots. In the middle section of the wing, the spots are moon-shaped and a light blue color. Both sexes have cream-yellow moon-shaped marks on the edges of the rear wings and a clear, orange spot on the basis of the wings. In women, the orange spot at the base of the wings with a green-white shade in the summer but not spring. 

 

The difference in color between the two subspecies is that the spots of blue color on the hind wing of P. troilus troilus more yellow color in the ilioneus subspecies. In addition, splashes of blue trail all the way down the tail of the ilioneus. Males patrol forests, roads and forest edges to find receptive females. Some females to lay eggs on the underside of the host plant leaves. Caterpillars live in shelters of folded-over leaves and come out to feed at night. Some chrysalids of each generation overwinter. 

 

Spicebush Swallowtail gain sustenance from eight major sources here are some examples: eating the leaves of host plants as larvae and drinking nectar as adults. Joe-Pye weed, jewel weed and honeysuckle are favorite sources of nectar for the adults. They are also known to drink nectar from Lantana, but thistles, milkweed, azalea, dogbane, mimosa and sweet pepper bush. Spicebush Swallowtails are able to thermoregulate their thoraxes better than other Papilio species, perhaps due to their darker body color and wing. This allows them to fly and at lower temperatures than their colleagues to feed. 

 

Spicebush Swallowtails often engage in "puddling", a form of behavior that occurs when the adults fly in search of food or friends. "Puddling" reflects the fact that while he was in either feeding or mating behavior, ie, when away from home; Spicebush Swallowtails usually stay in groups. These groups are usually located on the banks of the water, such as sand or wet ribs. If "puddling" in these groups, the Papilio troilus get moisture from the soil or sand near the water. Many animals are predators of the Spicebush Swallowtail. These species include birds, spiders, robber flies and dragonflies. All these creatures will try to both the adult Spicebush Swallowtail butterflies and young larvae eat.

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0 Silvery Blue Butterfly

 

Animal Unique | Silvery Blue Butterfly | Silvery Blue Butterfly are small, iridescent blue butterflies found in North America and Canada. Their wingspan is only 7 - 8 inch to 1 - 1/4 inch wide and they are found in a wide range of habitats, from coastal dunes and prairies. Although the species as a whole is abundant, is a subspecies (palosverdesensis) with extinction, with a rank of T1 by the Nature Conservancy (worldwide critically endangered by the extreme rarity), and another (xerces) is considered extinct. 

 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Division:     Rhopalocera
Phylum:     Arthropoda
Class:     Insecta
Order:     Lepidoptera
Family:     Lycaenidae
Tribe:     Polyommatini
Genus:     Glaucopsyche
Species:     G. lygamus

The upper wings of the male Silvery Blue Butterflies are bright blue with a dark gray border, which females are darker blue or gray in color with a wider rim. The undersides of the wings in both sexes are gray with black-rimmed white spots. The Silvery Blue Butterfly  is widespread in North America, found everywhere from Alaska to Massachusetts and far into Canada (as far as Nova Scotia). It is especially concentrated in the western and northern United States, but is found as far south as Georgia. 

 

Silvery Blue Butterfly caterpillars feed on host plants where the female butterflies lay their eggs. These plants may include vetch (Astragalus spp. Or Vicia spp.), Peas (Lathyrus spp.), Lupine (Lupinus spp.), And deer weed (Lotus scoparius). The adult Silvery Blue Butterfly feed on the nectar of various flowers. Silvery Blue Butterfly caterpillars have a special structure known as a "honey-gland," a sweet substance that attracts ants to feed on the separates. In what is known as a symbiotic relationship (meaning that both species benefit), the ants tend the larvae, protecting them from predators. 

 

The main threat to the Silvery Blue Butterfly is the destruction of habitat due to weeds and rototilling, adverse effects on the larval food plants is essential. Recreational, commercial or residential development of the Silvery Blue Butterfly is also a major problem in the preservation of food plants.

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Detail: Silvery Blue Butterfly