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Viceroy Butterfly - Limenitis archippus
Copyright © 2006 Sharon and Bill Harris

Viceroy Butterfly - Limenitis archippus
Near Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
September 23, 2006
Taken at Great Lakes Roses, a rose nursery near Ann Arbor, Michigan. The bush is a Butterfly bush, of course.

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Viceroy Butterfly - Limenitis archippus Viceroy Butterfly - Limenitis archippus
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Contributed by Sharon and Bill Harris on 28 November, 2007 - 6:34pm
Last updated 30 June, 2009 - 5:31pm

Moved
Moved from Viceroy.
… David J. Ferguson, 30 June, 2009 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Monarch.
… Sharon and Bill Harris, 28 November, 2007 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

not Monarch
I think this is the look-alike Viceroy:
e.g.
… Sean McCann, 28 November, 2007 - 6:42pm login or register to post comments

 
I Was
Just thinking that myself. I went in and was looking at other pictures on BG and said "wait mine is different". I rarely see the dorsal view of a Monarch.
… Sharon and Bill Harris, 28 November, 2007 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

 
...
Well, this would be the first record for Michigan...On Bugguide at least.
… Sean McCann, 28 November, 2007 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

 
I Have Chased
a butterfly before and loaded the pictures on my computer thinking it was just one butterfly to find it was a different butterfly (of the same kind though) because of different tears and such in the wings. I am glad to have a first for BG though.
… Sharon and Bill Harris, 28 November, 2007 - 6:48pm login or register to post comments

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