Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Phaon Crescent?, 1 by prairefire
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Subject: CLOSED: Phaon Crescent?
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prairefire wrote: Apologies for the picture but this was as good as I could get after a week of trying. I have a whole slew of these on my spearmint and lavender but they are definitely camera shy plus they normally flutter their wings so quickly that it's hard to get a shot at all. I think the hideous heat today made them slightly lethargic. I found a site that shows what butterflies and moths have been found in my area and I think that my little (1") guy looks like the Phaon Crescent (Phyciodes phaon): http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1740&chosen_sta... Did I guess correctly or do I need to hang out here a lot longer? |


