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Family Nymphalidae - Brushfooted Butterflies

Nymphs, Satyrs and Arctic Butterflies · Snouts · Milkweed Butterflies · Heliconians and Fritillaries · Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc.

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Subfamily Satyrinae - Nymphs, Satyrs and Arctic Butterflies

Common Alpine - Erebia epipsodea - male - female

Common Wood Nymph - Cercyonis pegala

Which Wood-Nymph? - Cercyonis oetus

Erebia 01 - Erebia epipsodea

Common Alpine - Erebia epipsodea

Caroline Satyr - Hermeuptychia sosybius

Oeneis chryxus altacordillera - Oeneis chryxus

Mead's Wood-Nymph - Cercyonis meadii

Subfamily Libytheinae - Snouts

American Snout - Libytheana carinenta

butterfly - Libytheana carinenta

Snout? What kind? - Libytheana carinenta

American Snout Butterfly For Illinois In September - Libytheana carinenta

American Snout Butterfly For Illinois In August - Libytheana carinenta - female

American Snout BF - Libytheana carinenta

American Snout - Libytheana carinenta

Snout Nose Butterfly - Libytheana carinenta

Subfamily Danainae - Milkweed Butterflies

Monarch? - Danaus plexippus - male

Monarch for California in July - Danaus plexippus

Monarch - Danaus plexippus - Danaus plexippus - male

Danaus plexippus - male

FOS Monarch - Danaus plexippus

Monarch - Danaus plexippus

Danaus gilippus - Queen - Danaus gilippus - male

Monarch - Danaus plexippus - female

Subfamily Heliconiinae - Heliconians and Fritillaries

Gulf Fritillary - Agraulis vanillae

Gulf Fritillary - Agraulis vanillae

Variegated Fritillary - Euptoieta claudia

Mormon Fritillary - Speyeria mormonia - male

Fritillary butterfly - Speyeria aphrodite - male

Orange and Black Butterfly - Euptoieta claudia

Gulf Fritillary In Flight - Agraulis vanillae

Variegated Fritillary - Euptoieta claudia

Subfamily Nymphalinae - Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc.

Baltimore Checkerspot - Euphydryas phaeton

Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta

Mourning Cloak - Nymphalis antiopa

Eastern Comma - Polygonia comma

Questionmark or Comma? - Polygonia interrogationis

Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta - Vanessa atalanta

Vanessa cardui - Vanessa cardui

Unknown butterfly. - Phyciodes phaon - female

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