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Sleepy Sulphur/Sleepy Orange
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Scientific Name: Eurema nicippe
Order: Lepidopterae
Family: Pieridae
Diet: Cassia species is the host plant for larvae. Adults eat nectar from shepherd?s needle and other flowers.
Vegetation Association: Host plant is cassia species. Found in low elevations such as open woods, desert scrub, roadsides and gardens.
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 tend to hibernate during cooler days.
Photo: To be added.
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