Scientific Name:  Libytheana carinenta

Order:  Lepidoptera
Family:  Libytheidae

Diet:  Adults will feed on nectar from desert broom and seep willow
Vegetation Association:  Host plant is hackberry
Predators:   It varies its flight behavior and, therefore; can be mistaken for other species.

Life Stages: Complete metamorphosis, egg, larvae, pupae, adult.

Notes:  May engage in large vast migrations.  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.

Photo:  To be added.

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