CLOSED: Fritillary Butterfly?

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neefman East Bridgewater, MA Nov 24, 2015

This was in South Dakota a couple summers ago. What kind of butterfly is this?

Thanx!

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Nov 25, 2015

Definitely looks like a Speyeria sp, - see http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Speyeria-atlantis for an example (Atlantis fritillary).

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neefman East Bridgewater, MA Nov 25, 2015

Very cool. Thanks as always Flapdoodle. I was in your neck of the woods on this trip at TR National Park as well as the Badlands of SD.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Nov 25, 2015

TR is a great place - I saw a good bit of it during the course of conducting rangeland grasshopper surveys in southwestern ND in 1962...

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neefman East Bridgewater, MA Nov 26, 2015

I hope it's now just as undisturbed as it was in 1962...

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Nov 28, 2015

Keep your fingers crossed...
http://peoplesworld.org/north-dakota-park-threatened-by-oil-gas-drilling/

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neefman East Bridgewater, MA Nov 30, 2015

Ugh... Drill outside the park all you want, but inside? I guess I'm not surprised at this.

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1lisac Liberty Hill, TX(Zone 8a) Nov 30, 2015

That's so sad.

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