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Common Buckeye

Junonia coenia

Description:

Spiky caterpillar with blue spots

Habitat:

Field of dirt and sparse grass. The area received a lot of rain in the preceding weeks

3 Comments

maplemoth662
maplemoth662 6 years ago

A beautiful caterpillar....

Machi
Machi 8 years ago

Thanks Logan!

Jellis
Jellis 8 years ago

I've seen ones similar but not with the blue dots. And some caterpillars change patterns before the morph. But they come close to the Speyeria species

Machi
Spotted by
Machi

Georgia, USA

Spotted on Jan 10, 2016
Submitted on Jan 27, 2016

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