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Polygonia satyrus
Orange butterfly, backsides of wings like treebark.
Lowland NW forrest
Thanks, I was just saying the otherday that a collaborative species counting app would be an awesome idea and then I found this. Not quite the same but close.
Thanks! That actually helped a bit. Some quick net research confirmed.
It looks very similar to the comma and question mark butterflies that are here in the east, but they don't get as far west as Oregon, so we can rule those out. I looked through the different species listed on BugGuide, and it looks like it might be either P. oreas or P. satyrus. I'm leaning towards P. satyrus, but I would suggest that you research it a bit more.
Spotted on Aug 1, 2011
Submitted on Aug 2, 2011
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