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Learn what a hackberry emperor butterfly looks like and where to find one. Also find out the caterpillar's host plant.
I was standing at Pavilion 1 in Lancaster County Central Park one day early in June when a hackberry butterfly landed on my left arm. Immediately its long, straw-like mouth came out and I could ...
Each spring, butterfly larvae from the previous summer emerge from a winter-long dormancy on the forest floor, and climb back up the nearest hackberry to gorge on its new leaves.
When a butterfly alights on one’s shoulder, the poet Robert Browning would say, “God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,” and I must concur with the bard. The hackberry ...
Hackberry trees can be messy, ... Perhaps best of all, it is the preferred host plant for the Hackberry Emperor butterfly, a warm red-brown creature with odd white spots and black wing bands.
It’s impossible not to love a hackberry emperor butterfly. These gentle creatures will land on your skin to partake of the salt and other minerals in your sweat.
I was standing at Pavilion 1 in Lancaster County Central Park one day early in June when a hackberry butterfly landed on my left arm. Immediately its long, straw-like mouth came out and I could ...