Washington DC Arthropod Biodiversity Project Nymphalidae...Phyciodes...tharos

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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Phyciodes tharos
Common Name: Pearl Crescent

Country: USA
State/District: WV
County: Jefferson
Date (D-M-Y): 1 - 7 - 2001

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: National Conservation Training Center, WV

Keywords: A brown butterfly orange butterfly NNCTC pollination pollinator
Additional Information:

This male Pearl Crescent has tattered wings, possibly due to a bird(s) that grasped his wings with its bill. As I photographed this butterfly, he sunned itself and opened and closed his wings. This is a common species in the Washington, D.C., Area.