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Scientific Name: Eurema mexicanum
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Diet: Food is senna. Adults feed on nectar from a variety of flowers.
Vegetation Association: Sennas are host plants. Found in open oakwoods, meadows among pine forest, desert chaparral, and mountain canyons.
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. Also called Mexican Sulfer.
Photo: To be added.
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