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Spotted at Fairchild Botanical Garden's butterfly garden.
Adult feeding on cabbage palm flowers, larvae and pupae on host plant coontie
Back from extinction we spotted two adults and several caterpillars in SW dade ...
Found only on a coontie plant. Its eggs pictured here as well as the larva ...
One of these caterpillars was immobile while the other was running circles ...
Open brushy areas and subtropical hammocks, often in pine woodlands. It is ...
The atala as a pupa are an orange color. ...
Black with bright blue markings and a bright orange tail.
This precious little Hairstreak is called the
Once thought extinct here in South Florida this butterfly is making a come ...
This little jellybean of a caterpillar is in the process of changing into the ...
This pupa was in the vicinity but a little further along than this one ...
I've only seen one or two of these at a time at Fairchild Tropical Gardens. ...