Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Phyciodes tharos
Common Name: Pearl Crescent
Country: USA
State/District: MD
County: Montgomery
Date: July 2002
Photographer: E. M. Barrows
Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location:
Keywords: A brown butterfly Garden-1 orange butterfly pollination pollinator Additional Information:
Figure 1.
A male Pearl Crescent apparently with a beak mark from a bird that might have been trying to eat this butterfly (29 October 2001).
This is the first time that I saw such a mark on a butterfly.
Figures 2–3.
A male Pearl Crescent sunning on a leaf of Common Milkweed (6 July 2001).
Figure 4.
A female Pearl Crescent sunning on a leaf of Elm-leaved Goldenrod (17 August 2001).
This is a common species in the Washington, D.C., Area, in yards, along roadsides, and in other habitats.
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