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Great Spangled Fritillary

Speyeria cybele

Description:

Wingspan 3 - 3 3/4 inches (75 - 95 mm). Wings above orange-brown with many black spots. Fore wings below paler with brownish-black markings and a few silvery-yellow spots.

Habitat:

Open, moist places including fields, valleys, pastures, right-of-ways, meadows, open woodland, prairies.

Notes:

The Great spangled Fritillary flies quickly but pauses to take nectar from a variety of blossoms including Black-Eyed Susan, Thistles, and others. Females mate in June or July and then proceed to hide, on bark, or under foliage till late August to September, to lay their eggs on the leaves of the viola. Males, which emerged earlier, in May to June, live only to mate and by this time are almost nonexistent.

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6 Comments

NeilDazet
NeilDazet 11 years ago

Thanks everyone!! Dan - yeah it is. This series was one of the first I captured with the new camera.

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Nice Neil! That new camera is working good!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 11 years ago

lovely!

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 11 years ago

very nice Neil!

NeilDazet
NeilDazet 11 years ago

Thanks Carol! Expect to see some more arthropod spottings from me!

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 11 years ago

Gorgeous!

NeilDazet
Spotted by
NeilDazet

Missouri, USA

Spotted on May 20, 2012
Submitted on May 20, 2012

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