White Peacock Butterfly

by Dawn Currie

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White Peacock Butterfly

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Dawn Currie

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Photograph - Digital

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

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White Peacock Butterfly (Anartia jatrophae): As its name implies, the white peacock is a whitish butterfly, but it has light orange wing borders and a lot of gray brown markings. Each forewing bears a single solid black spot and the hind wings have two smaller black dots. The white peacock is a common butterfly of open, weedy sites along waterways or ditches, where its larval host plants typically grow. It has a fast, low, erratic flight and is often difficult to approach. Females are significantly larger than males. Although common throughout southern Texas and Florida, the species regularly moves northward each year to establish temporary breeding colonies. I found this individual at the Jacksonville zoo.

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March 31st, 2014

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