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North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss — and also easy to attract to backyards by planting a variety of native plants.. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be bright ...
(state butterfly) Papilio polyxenes: 2014 [38] New Mexico: Tarantula hawk wasp (state insect) Pepsis grossa: 1989 [39] Sandia hairstreak (state butterfly) Callophrys mcfarlandi: 2003 [40] New York: 9-spotted ladybug: Coccinella novemnotata: 1989 [41] North Carolina: European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera: 1973 [42] Eastern tiger ...
Papilio turnus Linnaeus[2] Papilio glaucus, the eastern tiger swallowtail, is a species of butterfly native to eastern North America. It is one of the most familiar butterflies in the eastern United States, [3] ranging north to southern Ontario, Canada, [4] and is common in many different habitats. It flies from spring until fall, during which ...
The Saint Francis's satyr (Neonympha mitchellii francisci) is an endangered butterfly subspecies found only in the US state of North Carolina.First discovered in 1983, it was first described by David K. Parshall and Thomas W. Kral in 1989 and listed as federally endangered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1994.
Frog, in Cary, North Carolina. Frogs are common in the marshy and wet regions of the Piedmont. The frog pictured at left is a Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysocelis) or gray treefrog (H. versicolor). These two species cannot be differentiated except by their call or genetic analysis. However, H. versicolor is rare in the state and likely to not ...
Atrytonopsis quinteri. Burns, 2015. The crystal skipper (Atrytonopsis quinteri) is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae that is found only along a 30-mile (50 km) stretch of barrier islands in North Carolina. The skipper was first discovered in 1978 and the paper describing it as a full species was published in 2015.
The American painted lady or American lady (Vanessa virginiensis) [ 3 ] is a butterfly found throughout North America. The larvae feed on various Asteraceae, such as the cudweeds (genus Gnaphalium), the pussytoes (Antennaria), and the everlastings (Anaphalis), which all belong to tribe Gnaphalieae. [ 4 ] All stages of the life cycle can be ...
Phoebis sennae, the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas. There are several similar species such as the clouded sulphur (Colias philodice), the yellow angled-sulphur (Anteos maerula), which has angled wings, the statira sulphur (Aphrissa statira), and other sulphurs, which are much smaller.