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Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly

Limenitis arthemis astyanax

Photo by Jack Settle
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

According to Wikipedia, this butterfly mimics the poisonous pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) (similar to the way a viceroy mimics the poisonous monarch).

Habitat:

At Snake Road in southern Illinois.

Found flying around on the road.

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