Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Northern Crescent Butterfly

This pretty butterfly is most likely the Northern crescent, Phyciodes cocyta, though it's difficult to tell apart from the Pearl Crescent, Phyciodes tharos, so they were originally regarded as one species.

It very pleasingly kept still for me to get close and capture the lovely antennal markings, the orange tips of which make it a male.


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