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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject: It's a Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia)!!! |
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I found this beauty sipping on the orange Cosmos this afternoon. Maybe 3" tip to tip but since I couldn't get him/her to sit still for a measuring I really don't know for sure.
Unknown, but not a Red Admiral ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden )
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:51 am Post subject: |
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http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/bpatch.html
I found it...a Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia)
The first photo is exactly like mine.
The caterpillar host plant is sunflowers among others so next year I will have many more sunflowers in the yard.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:11 am Post subject: |
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Yes,Sjoerd, it was very stunning sitting on that Cosmos in real life and as usual my camera doesn't do it justice.
Randy says he has seen one of those out there in the past, that was the first I had seen.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:36 am Post subject: |
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I don't think I've ever seen a Bordered Patch before Toni. What a lovely thing it is!! 
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