Scientific Name: Euptoieta claudia
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Diet: Larvae eat host plants of yellow passionvine, blue passionvine, maypops, grooved flax and others. Adults eat nectar from many plants, including; butterflyweed, common milkweed, dogbane.
Vegetation Association: Host plants are yellow passionvine, blue passionvine, maypops, grooved flax and many others. Found in open sunny areas such as pastures, fields or road edges.
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.
Photo: To be added.
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