Phaon Crescent Butterfly Images

Phaon Crescent Butterfly Images, Facts and Information:

Phyciodes phaon

• Phaon Crescent butterflies are medium-sized brush-footed butterflies with a wingspan of 1 – 1 1/2 inches (2.5 – 3.8 cm). Their upperside is orange with black markings, while the underside of the hindwing is cream to yellowish. Spring and fall butterflies (form marcia) have a gray hindwing.
• Phaon Crescents are found in southern regions of the United States due to the subtropical nature of their host plant, frogfruit (verbenas). They thrive in open, disturbed areas like fields, roadsides, and vacant lots where their host plants grow.
• Phaon Crescent butterflies eat exclusively frogfruit plants as larvae. Adults nectar on a variety of wildflowers. Phaon Crescents lay their eggs singly on the leaves or stems of frogfruit plants. The eggs hatch into caterpillars that feed on the host plant until pupating and emerging as adult butterflies.
• Phaon Crescent butterflies have multiple broods throughout the warm months, with the number of generations varying based on latitude and climate. They overwinter as larvae or pupae in cooler regions.

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