Scientific Name:  Libytheana carinenta
Order:  Lepidoptera
Family:  Libytheidae
Diet:  Various Hackberries, especially spiny hackberry.
Vegetation Association:  Hackberry, its larval foodplant, which is found in or near wet areas.  They are also seen on dirt roads and landing on people to imbibe salts.
Predators:
Life Stages:  Complete metamorphosis; egg, larva, pupa, adult.
Notes:  Young caterpillars feed and shed their skin, or molt. The final molt produces the pupa, and then the butterfly rests.  Once free of the chrysalis, fluid from its body is pumped into its wings, the wings then are allowed to dry before it flies away to look for food and a mate.  They sometimes migrate in huge numbers.  They have elongated mouthparts which give the appearance of a snout.   Adults perch on branches and imitate dead leaves.
Photo:  To be added.

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