White Peacock Butterfly

Description:

As its name implies, the white peacock is a whitish butterfly, but it has light orange wing borders and a lot of gray brown markings. Each forewing bears a single solid black spot and the hind wings have two smaller black dots. The white peacock is a common butterfly of open, weedy sites along waterways or ditches, where its larval host plants typically grow. It has a fast, low, erratic flight and is often difficult to approach. Females are significantly larger than males. Although common throughout southern Texas and Florida, the species regularly moves northward each year to establish temporary breeding colonies. http://www.floridata.com/tracks/butterfl...

Habitat:

Most open, sunny and moist areas such as disturbed sites, pond edges and along roadside ditches http://www.floridata.com/tracks/butterfl...

Notes:

This poor creature was mauled in an area heavily populated by predatory dragonflies.