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June 10, 2019  •  Leave a Comment

The butterflies have come out in droves, and today, on the Dame's Rocket in the home garden, I got a new one. It was definitely one of the so-called "Ladies"—members of the genus Vanessa—but I wasn't immediately sure of which one: the Painted, or the American? Then I remembered a sure-fire clue from uber-lepidopteran expert Jeffrey Glassberg's Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America, in which the author quipped: "American Ladies have big eyes." Looking at me from the cobweb pattern on the hind wings was a pair of very large "eyes." No doubt about it... I'd been visited by an American woman by the name of Vanessa... Vanessa virginiensis.

Keywords: American Lady, butterflies, Dame's Rocket, Jeffrey Glassberg, Swift Guide to Butterflies of North America, Vanessa virginiensis

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