"Beauty in the Garden" Common Buckeye
Named for its conspicuous target-shaped eyespots, the common buckeye, Junonia coenia Huber, is one of the most distinctive and readily-identifiable North American butterflies. It inhabits a wide variety of open, sunny landscapes including old fields, roadsides, utility corridors, gardens, parks, yards, fallow agricultural land, scrubs, pine savannas, and weedlots. (entnemdept.ufl.edu) Saw this lovely butterfly in Lake Forest, California!
Wishing everyone a blessed Easter and happy Passover!
"Beauty in the Garden" Common Buckeye
Named for its conspicuous target-shaped eyespots, the common buckeye, Junonia coenia Huber, is one of the most distinctive and readily-identifiable North American butterflies. It inhabits a wide variety of open, sunny landscapes including old fields, roadsides, utility corridors, gardens, parks, yards, fallow agricultural land, scrubs, pine savannas, and weedlots. (entnemdept.ufl.edu) Saw this lovely butterfly in Lake Forest, California!
Wishing everyone a blessed Easter and happy Passover!