29 August 2014

Butterflies - Great Spangled Fritillary

The Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. There are at least 30 species of Fritillary butterflies

The orange and black Great Spangled Fritillary is sometimes mistaken for their more famous distant cousins the monarch butterflies. But unlike the monarchs, the Great Spangled Fritillary do not go for milkweeds.

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