Sign In. Edit Black Butterflies Ingrid Jonker Liam Cunningham Jack Cope Rutger Hauer Abraham Jonker Graham Clarke Uys Krige Nicholas Pauling Eugene Maritz Candice D'Arcy Anna Jonker Ceridwen Morris Marjorie Grant Swanby Jan Rabie Waldemar Schultz Etienne le Roux Tarryn Page Irma Louis Pretorius That makes the Limenitis genus a pretty amazing bunch of copy-cats, adapting over millions of years to resemble animals that are poisonous and protected from predators.
The red-spotted purple is especially beautiful on the underside, so if you ever get to see one up close, you'll want to keep your camera handy. Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly Speyeria cybele. This bright orange butterfly wings fast across fields and around forest edges in mid- to late summer. Some researchers think its orange color is meant to mimic the poisonous monarch butterfly's colors; if so, that makes it yet another in the orange-butterfly mimic category that may also include over a dozen unrelated species.
The great spangled has lovely silver spots on the underside, which gives the insect its common name. There are many similar, related species that occur across our area, many of which are quite rare and limited to specific areas in the mountainous western states.
These big, beautiful butterflies can be identified by their bold yellow-and-black stripes, hence their common name. These tigers have an unusual life history. The adults are on the wing in mid-summer, wheeling high among the branches of ash and cherry trees, where the big females lay their eggs. The caterpillar, which is green with little "false eye" spots near its head, feeds until it is about half grown, and then builds a little shelter by pulling together the edges of a leaf.
It overwinters in this shelter, and in the spring emerges to continue feeding. It will pupate in early summer, and then the adults hatch to complete the process. Another interesting fact about the tiger swallowtail is that some females, especially in the southern parts of its range, are almost all a smokey, dark brown in color.
They hardly even look like tigers. Experts have suggested that the reason for this "dimorphic" phase is in order to mimic the bad-tasting pipevine swallowtail, which is generally more common in the south than in the north.
This beautiful insect is the northernmost species of a large tropical genus Battus that includes some of the most striking swallowtail butterflies in the tropics, which is saying something. The pipeline swallowtail is generally limited to the southern states, but it has been spotted as far south as Mexico and as far north as Manitoba, especially later in the summer as multiple broods spread north.
This insect is believed to be the model for a number of other species that mimic its blue-on-black coloring. The larvae and the adult may be poisonous or distasteful to predators like birds and lizards, making it a good idea to look the same whether or not you yourself are poisonous. Like the pipevine swallowtail above , this is a generally southern species that sometimes ranges as far north as Canada. The caterpillar closely resembles a large bird dropping, which would serve to deter birds and other predators.
In the American South, these big caterpillars are often called "orange dogs" for their choice of food plant: citrus trees, especially orange and lemon. In some cases they can cause damage to young trees.
The sight of a big, beautiful giant swallowtail swooping around your garden plants is one you are not likely to soon forget! This beautiful insect aptly named, with black stripes on a clear white background. Like the giant swallowtail above , it is a northern representative of a group of butterflies that have many varieties throughout the Neotropics.
You will seldom find this species outside of the southern states, but it will sometimes wander north, for example along the Mississippi River Valley. Like all other swallowtails, the flight is strong and gliding, but they will often stop to nectar.
At these times you may see several visiting the same nectar source. Males also participate in a behavior known as "puddling," which is when a group of butterflies congregates at wet sand or mud to draw nutrients.
The caterpillar of the black swallowtail butterfly is sometimes called a "carrot worm. This common butterfly occurs in one form or another over pretty much the entire North American continent. I chose to picture the male, which has more yellow on its hind wings; the female black swallowtail is larger and has much more blue on its hindwings, making it yet another North American butterfly that resembles the poisonous pipeline swallowtail.
Black swallowtails have a very striking caterpillar, often called the "carrot-worm" because it eats, you guessed it, carrots. Maybe the photo above looks familiar to you. Not a true beauty, perhaps, but this plain white insect is by far the most successful butterfly in North America. It was introduced from Europe many years ago and has found a home everywhere from your backyard garden to the wilds of the western mountains.
The very inconspicuous pale-green caterpillar of the cabbage white butterfly lives on the underside of many different leaves, especially cruciferous plants and other cultivars, and eats holes in the middle of the leaf; the damage is very familiar to even the most casual gardener.
You can see the damage, but good luck finding one of the larvae—they are close to invisible. The butterfly is not protected by poisonous compounds and doesn't really resemble known mimicry models like the orange monarch or the black-and-blue pipeline swallowtail, but it has become the single most common butterfly in city and countryside. The orange sulfur and the clouded sulfur both members of the "clouded yellows and sulphurs" subfamily Coliadinae can be hard to tell apart, and often fly together, so I put them together here.
They are among the first butterflies to appear each spring, and they seem to have adapted very well to the disturbances humans cause in the landscape.
Look out over the close-cut monoculture of a golf course or city park grounds and you'll probably see a few of these very common butterflies dancing across the grass. There are several other yellow species in the Coliadinae subfamily, and these butterflies all look much alike to the casual observer.
For this guide, I am sticking to the most common. The next species is one worth singling out. This butterfly can be difficult to tell apart from the previous one.
The basic facts are all the same, and the larvae are basically indistinguishable, except to an expert. There are some differences in the colors and black wing margins, but even these characteristics are variable between individuals and between regions. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 40 minutes.
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While you cannot turn back the clock, you are slowly learning new ways to stay young at heart and enjoy the next stage in your life. When you see a black butterfly, this is a reassuring sign that you are handling these challenges well. The type of black butterfly you see will depend on which part of the world you are in. There are hundreds of butterfly species with black wings, but they all carry very similar spiritual messages.
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Ready to find out what it means when you see a black butterfly? Butterflies symbolize hope, transformation, and new beginnings. In fact, throughout their lifespan, butterflies go through many changes called metamorphosis. You Will Have a Sleepless Night When you see a black butterfly, this is a sign that you recently had a sleepless night or will have a difficult time falling asleep soon.
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