Home › Community › Happenings › Photo Gallery › Hydaspe Fritillary

Hydaspe Fritillary

Submitted by sue wheeler on February 15, 2009 - 10:27pm
1-doctored.JPG

 Hydaspe Fritillary (Speyeria hydaspe)

 Medium-sized. Orange heavily patterned with black on the dorsal side of wings, black and cream spots on the underside. A mid-summer butterfly. Eggs are laid on violets, adults feed on thistles, mud, and a variety of flowers

For more information, please see...: 

Lasqueti Butterflies

This site is for butterflies that have been seen and identified on Lasqueti Island.

Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
CAPTCHA
This question tests whether you are a human visitor, to prevent spam submissions.
The answer can easily be found on this site if you don't know it.
Don't stress - if you get it wrong, you'll get another chance, just try again :-)
4 + 10 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
To prevent automated spam submissions leave this field empty.