Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Look What I Found!, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
One of the tell tale differences between American Lady and Painted Lady is the eye spots on the underside of the bottom wing. The AL has only 2 very large eyes there, the PL has 4 small ones.

Says it might be the winter form that they are small, but it is because they stop eating or run out of host. that can happen in any season. This one is paler than the ones in late summer.

Here she was resting on a sunflower leaf. It is Italian Ice SF... could that be an egg there to the right of her in this pic?