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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters (Lycaenidae) » Hairstreaks (Theclinae) » Eumaeini » Strymon » Gray Hairstreak - Hodges#4336 (Strymon melinus)
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Rose colored caterpillar - Strymon melinus
Copyright © 2018 Shirley Wilkerson

Rose colored caterpillar - Strymon melinus
Kurten, Brazos County, Texas, USA
May 24, 2018
Size: 1 in or smaller
feeding on Black Knight Salvia that was about to open

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Rose colored caterpillar - Strymon melinus Rose colored caterpillar - Strymon melinus
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Contributed by Shirley Wilkerson on 27 July, 2018 - 8:29am
Last updated 11 August, 2018 - 12:01pm

Moved
Moved from Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters.
… Ken Allison, 11 August, 2018 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Skippers.
… Ken Allison, 10 August, 2018 - 7:19am login or register to post comments

That's an easy one
Salvia is the genus as well as the common name
… john and jane balaban, 27 July, 2018 - 10:31am login or register to post comments

If you know the species of pl
If you know the genus or species of plant it was on, sometimes that clues you into what butterfly species.
… aphid, 27 July, 2018 - 10:23am login or register to post comments

Lycaenidae
Unfortunately they all look the same to us :(
… john and jane balaban, 27 July, 2018 - 9:53am login or register to post comments

 
Lycaenidae
This has to be Gray Hairstreak. All the images on the web look like this hairstreak, and Gray Hairstreaks were flying all over my garden that time. Thank you so much for pointing me to the Lycaenidae group.
… Shirley Wilkerson, 11 August, 2018 - 9:16am login or register to post comments

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