We Make A Beautiful Pair

by Deena Stoddard

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We Make A Beautiful Pair

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Deena Stoddard

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Photograph - Photograph

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Named for its conspicuous target-shaped eyespots, the common buckeye is one of the most distinctive and readily-identifiable North American butterflies. It inhabits a wide variety of open, sunny landscapes including old fields, roadsides, utility corridors, gardens, parks, yards, fallow agricultural land, scrubs, pine savannas, and weedlots. It is a resident across the southern United States and much of Mexico. In Florida, it can be found in all 67 counties. The butterfly regularly expands its range northward each year to temporarily colonize much of the U.S., occasionally reaching southern Canada. Starting in late summer and continuing through fall, huge numbers of adults migrate southward into peninsular Florida, where the adults overwinter. These beautiful specimens were captured in rural southwest Missouri.



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January 31st, 2013

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