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Gulf Fritillary / Passion Butterfly

Agraulis vanillae

Photo by cheryl v2.0
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Field Notes

Description:

Orange caterpillars about 1.5"-2" long with black spikes.

Habitat:

Central America to Southern U.S.

Notes:

I knew these were the caterpillars of Gulf Fritillaries, and I know they like munching on the leaves of our passionfruit vine, but did not know they eat that exclusively. Very interesting, thanks Wikipedia!

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Gulf Fritillary

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Comments (2)
NancyChenet
I had a beautiful passion vine with several flowers in bloom and about 10 of them showed up and devoured it in about 4 days! Don't think it's going to grow back, only 3 leaves left! I planted a new one next to it for this season.

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