Mariposa Butterfly Schmetterling

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Mariposa Butterfly Schmetterling
Papillon Vlinder Choo
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2006 Year of the White Peacock
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Or Year of the Orange-Barred Sulphur ?
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Or the Year of the Snout ?
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Butterflies MothsWhat is the Difference?

• Butterflies
• All have a club or swelling at tip of antenae
• Never have the fore and hind wings coupled
  together
• Nearly all are diurnal

• Moths
• Variety of shapes of antenae Filiform, Pectinate,
  or Clubbed
• Fore and hind wings linked by Frenelum
• Most are nocturnal

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Lepidoptera Antenae

• Butterfly

Skipper
Moth
Moth
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Tawny Emporer
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Buckeye
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Dorantes Skipper
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Cecropia
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Classification Taxonomy

• Kingdom Animalia
• Phylum Arthropoda
• Class Insecta
• Order Lepidoptera
• Suborder Rhopalocera
• Super Family Papilionoidae
• Family Pieridae
• Genus Phoebis
• Species sennae
• Common Name Cloudless
  Sulphur

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Phoebis Sennae
Cloudless Sulphur
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Life HistoryEgg

• Many various shapes
• Largest no larger than the head of a pin
• Plant species specific (Host Plant)

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Black Swallowtail Eggs
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Great Southern White Eggs
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Zebra Longwing
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Caterpillar Anatomy

• Eating Machine
• Goes through 4-5 Instars by casting off old skin

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Palamedes Caterpillar
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Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar
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Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar
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Orange-Barred Sulphur Caterpillar
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Hickory Horned Devil
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Imperial Moth
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Julia
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Julia
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Cloudless Sulphur
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Cloudless Sulphur
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Zebra Longwing
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Gulf Fritillary
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Gulf Fritillary
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Cloudless Sulphur
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Adult Butterfly
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Cloudless Sulphur
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Cloudless Sulphur Mating
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How Do I Identify Butterflies?

• Size
• Color
• Shape of Wings
• Flight Pattern
• Location
• Time of the Year

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Swallowtails
Black Swallowtail
Tiger Swallowtail
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Milkweed Butterflies
Monarch
Queen
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Whites Sulphurs
Southern Dog Face
Orange-Barred Sulphur
Little Sulphur
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Hairstreaks Blues
Pigmy Blue
Grey Hairstreak
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Snout Butterflies
Snout
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Longwings
Gulf Fritillary
Julia
Zebra
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Brush-Footed
Question Mark
Tawny Emperor
Viceroy
Pearl Crescant
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Satyrs, Wood Nymphs Browns
Carolina Satyr
Southern Pearly Eye
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Skippers
White Striped Longtail
Broadwing
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Spread Wing Skippers
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Grass Skippers
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Break Break Break
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Host Plants
Passion Vine
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Host Plants
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Host Plants
Frog Fruit
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Host Plants
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Host Plants
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Host Plants
Sennae Cassia
Citrus
Red Bay
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Host Plants
Cleome
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Host Plants
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Host Plants
Sensitive Briar
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Host Plants
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Host Plants
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Nectar Plants
Golden Dew Drop
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Brazilian Button Flower
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Brazilian Cockscomb
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Lantana
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Zinnia
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Mexican Heather
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Pentas
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Salvia
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Cigar Plant
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Mist Flower
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Jatrophia
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Vines
Cypress Vine
Coral Vine
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In the Field
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Get Up Close Personal
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Vary Location Habitat
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Get Out There!
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James L. Smith

• 979-265-7739
• jlsmith1946_at_sbcglobal.net
• Have plants to spare!