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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) » Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc. (Nymphalinae) » Nymphalini » Ladies and Red Admiral (Vanessa) » American Lady - Hodges#4434 (Vanessa virginiensis)
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Vanessa virginiensis
Copyright © 2012 metrioptera

Vanessa virginiensis
Kennebunk, York County, Maine, USA
June 26, 2012
As happened last year , American lady caterpillars have established themselves in my potted plants. I'll figure out something to do with them.

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Vanessa virginiensis Vanessa virginiensis Vanessa virginiensis - male
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Contributed by metrioptera on 26 June, 2012 - 6:11pm

Host plant...
...on other image appears to be Dusty Miller (Artemisia stelleriana).
… John Pearson, 3 February, 2013 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

Do you have Pussytoes
or Pearly everlasting?
… john and jane balaban, 26 June, 2012 - 7:04pm login or register to post comments

 
No...
The plant they are on is, according to the label, a licorice plant. I've been trying to feed them leaves from many other plants, but they won't eat any of them. I'd recognize pussytoes or pearly everlasting if I saw them, but I can't seem to find them anywhere.
… metrioptera, 27 June, 2012 - 11:55am login or register to post comments

 
We find them on Antennaria here
where it grows in relatively dry thin soiled kinda bare places.
… john and jane balaban, 27 June, 2012 - 1:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Success!
I've found a plant on which they will feed. Not sure what it is, though, so I'll take a photo and see if it can be identified.
Edit: Here's a photo:
… metrioptera, 28 June, 2012 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

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