Buckeye butterfly

Butterflies have always been my favorite creatures to look at and realizing that I could photograph them brought so much joy. This was so much fun to capture and it brought back a few memories As kids, my brother and I called them “seeing eye butterflies” would run around the yard trying to catch them. They were super hard to catch and we used to blame them on the eyes on their wings 😆 there’s more stories, but those will wait until I capture the respected butterfly for it 📖

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ℹ️: Junonia Coenia aka the buckeye butterfly. There are actually three types of buckeye butterflies: Common (the one pictured), mangrove, and tropical. Each butterfly has four(4) distinct eye-like markings on their wings , 2 on the forewings and 2 on the hind (one large and small). The first eyespot on each hindwing is the largest out of all of them.

The markings on the common forewings consists of two orange bars and thick white bands near the tip of the wings; mangroves have an orange band. As you can see the colors of the “eyes” are blue in the center, black, orange and yellow. The eyes on the forewings have a blue-white center surrounded by a black and yellow ring. The hind wings top eye is the largest. It’s black and blue colors are split. Many assume that these marking are used to discourage any birds that may want to try and snack on them 🐦 Have you seen these beautiful butterflies around?

 

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