Common Buckeye Butterfly Images

Common Buckeye Butterfly Images, Facts and Information:

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• Common Buckeye Butterflies are medium-sized brown butterflies with large, conspicuous round eyespots on their wings. Their uppersides are brown with two orange bars on the forewings and two eyespots on each wing. Their hindwings have two eyespots, with the upper one being larger and containing a crescent.
• Common Buckeyes are found across nearly all of the United States and southern Canada at certain times of the year. They are most common in the southern regions but can be seen as far north as Canada during the summer months. While they don’t migrate en masse like monarchs, they do shift their population center, moving northward in the summer and southward in September and October.
• Common Buckeyes butterflies thrive in open, sunny spaces such as fields, gardens, roadsides, and areas with bare ground where males can establish territories. They are habitat generalists, requiring little more than these open areas and intermittent patches of ground.
• Adult Common Buckeyes feed on nectar from various flowers, including black-eyed Susans, butterfly milkweed, Joe Pye weeds, asters, ironweeds, purple coneflowers, and blue mistflowers. They feed on plants from the plantain, snapdragon, figwort, vervain, and ruellia families.
• In warmer climates, Common Buckeyes butterflies can breed up to four times a year.

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