Long-tailed Skipper butterflies (Urbanus proteus) have iridescent green bodies, translucent wing patches, and long hindwing tails. Adults have wingspans up to 2 inches (5 cm), feed on flower nectar,...
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Horace's Duskywing skippers are dark butterflies that live in North Carolina year-round. Three broods of adults fly May through September; caterpillars overwinter in leaf litter. They perch with...
A blazing orange and black butterfly, large wingspan, toxic to predators. No, it's not the Monarch butterfly, it's the Gulf Fritillary. A summer migrant to North Carolina, a casual nature...
The Eastern-tailed Blue butterfly (Everes comyntas) is small, gorgeous, abundant throughout North Carolina, and amazingly easy to overlook. This diminutive gossamer wing butterfly flies low to the...
The Hop Merchant Comma butterfly (Polygonia comma) lives in North Carolina all year round but that doesn't make this species easy to find in the wild. When perched out in the open, they keep a...
Cloudless Sulphur butterflies are easy to overlook in favor of flashier butterflies but are quite beautiful in their own right. As part of the "phoebis sulphur" family, the adult butterflies lack...