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Mourning Cloak Butterfly

Nymphalis antiopa

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Field Notes

Description:

Large butterfly raised from a found caterpillar. The butterfly was black, with yellow spots on the ends of it's wings. It started from a chubby black caterpillar that had red spots. These butterflies were all over during the begining of summer. Possibly a Mourning Cloak butterfly?

Habitat:

Whittier, California

Notes:

sorry for the bad photos, taken with phone

Species ID Suggestions

Mourning cloak

Nymphalis antiopa

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KarenL
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Comments (2)
KarenSaxton
definitely a mourning cloak. Saw my first one in years today. I was pretty excited, but he stayed out of my camera range. Hopefully my husband managed to get a snapshot

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PublishedSeptember 1, 2011

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