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Query: Southern small whiteResult: 264th of 556
white peacock butterfly? - 249-2.jpg
Subject: white peacock butterfly? - 249-2.jpg
Poster: Lisa (catfan@mindless.com)
249-2-White Peacock Butterfly-pair on flower-by Lisa Purcell.jpg
File size : 45572 bytes File date : 2000:11:24 13:35:13 Resolution: 584x380 Jpeg process : Baseline Posted Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals Posted Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 00:29:30 GMT

white peacock butterfly? - 249-2.jpg


Taken in my backyard.

249-2.jpg


White Peacock Butterfly (Anartia jatrophae) are very common in Central America and the Caribbean, as well as southern Texas and Florida. Small numbers can also be found in North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas.

White peacock butterflies are commonly found in warm, open, weedy areas such as fields or parks where water is abundant -usually in the form of a pond or stream. Adult butterflies are often seen along roadside ditches where host plants are abundant.

Males display a unique territorial behavior. Males stake out a territory, typically 15 meters in diameter, that contains larval host plants. Males perch in this area and aggressively protect it from other insects and other male white peacocks.

Southern small white
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