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Queen Butterfly caterpillar
Danaus gilippus
25.6133, -80.3984
Field Notes
Description:
instar shedding, caterpillar hatched on 7/26/2011
Habitat:
egg laid and hatched outside on zoo grounds
Notes:
On tropical milkweed plant (plant was brought inside for viewing), butterfly will be released outside after metamorphose.
This is the 2nd Queen generation that has occupied this plant in the last 2 months, before that there was a generation of Monarch.
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