Queen Butterfly

by Dawn Currie

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Queen Butterfly

Artist

Dawn Currie

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Photograph - Digital

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Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. Close-up of a Queen Butterfly photographed in the Jacksonville Zoo in Florida.

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Queen Butterfly (Danaus gilippus): There's more royalty in the butterfly world! The Queen is a 'Milkweed' butterfly. Sometimes mistaken for the Monarch, the Queen is a wee smaller in size with its noble orange-brown coloration edged in a black of two lines of white polka-dots. They lay their eggs on milkweed and related plants that will provide food for the caterpillars. The adults enjoy nectaring from various flowers.

Queen butterflies are resident in extreme southern United States south through tropical lowlands of the West Indies and Central America to Argentina. Regular stray and sometime colonist in the plains; rarely along Atlantic coastal plain to Massachusetts and the Great Plains. I found this individual at the Jacksonville zoo.

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March 31st, 2014

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