Common to the southern part of the United States, onward through Mexico, Central America, the West Indies on to South America as well as Florida this butterfly-known as the Gulf Fritillary-moves to the north in the spring and breeds in the southeast. Florida gets large numbers throughout every county of the state.
As an adult, the Gulf fritillary is medium in size, with the female being the largest, and has a wingspan of 65-95 mm. What you will see are bright orange wings with black marking, females are a little darker and have more markings.
Each year brings multiple generations of the Gulf frittilary and they are always in Florida. Small yellow eggs are found on or near various passionflowers, larvae have a voracious appetite for the host vines.
Source: Gulf fritillary facts
This weeks prompt for Six Sentence Story was “Gulf.” To join in on the fun go to: Girlie on the Edge
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The life cycle of butterflies is not an overly attractive one yet the final product is beautiful 🙂
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🌸thank you. I love butterflies.
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Totally love your Six Sentence Encyclopediae. lol (me being a clark and all, what not to like, a story and learn something new)
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Thanks! I actually searched for an image and this butterfly came up under GULF so I decided it needed to be told.
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I love butterflies. Barbara Kingsolver has a book called Flight Behavior, a fictionalized take on butterfly migration. Really great book.
This was a wonderful six. Well crafted and easily absorbed.
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Thank you. I will have to check out that book.
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How we do love to see them, even though we are not so pleased with them eating the passion flower vines that we also love.
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Nature caring for nature, I suppose. The passionflower is truly beautiful, as well.
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Some of my most relaxing, cherished moments are spent in butterfly conservatories.
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We went to one in Wilmington last year and it was beautiful.
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Love how you metamorphosed that prompt!
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Thank you!
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Nice job here – love what you did with the prompt. And I, too, will have to pick up Paul’s book recommendation and take a look. I’m not familiar with that particular Kingsolver title.
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Thank you.
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