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Pearl Crescent Butterfly

Phyciodes tharos

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Description:

Male (black antennae knobs). Variable markings. Orange with black border. White and black spots and dashes. Wingspan: 21-34 mm. Adult food: Nectar of wide variety of flowers including dogbane, swamp milkweed and asters.

Habitat:

Meadow with variety of flowers and weeds especially asters.

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PublishedMarch 19, 2014

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