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Metalmark Butterflies

order Lepidoptera - family Riodinidae

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Sipping Saw-leaf Daisy

 

Fatal Metalmark Calephelis nemesis

Photo taken in Taylor County, September 2007

(West and far south Texas, but maps do not show near Taylor)

Butterfly: 3/4"-1" wide. 

Caterpillar: eats Baccharis and Clematis

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Sitting on a dandelion

 

Little Metalmark Calephelis virginiensis

Photo taken in Taylor County, August 2008

(Coastal counties, but maps do not show near Taylor)

Butterfly: 3/4" wide. 

Caterpillar: eats yellow thistle

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