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Common snout butterfly

Libytheana bachmanii

Description:

A very nice butterfly with a distinctive long snout like mouthparts, it has orange coloring on wings and some white marks as well.

Habitat:

Found on a trail resting on some wild privet.

Notes:

It's now one of my live specimen that I keeping for study.

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2 Comments

Ihazapughappy
Ihazapughappy 11 years ago

Thanks! I was just taking a walk when it flew passed me, I was kind of shocked!

metreebug
metreebug 11 years ago

Wow! What a wonderful find! I have not seen one of those in a long time.

Ihazapughappy
Spotted by
Ihazapughappy

Louisiana, USA

Spotted on Jan 12, 2013
Submitted on Jan 13, 2013

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