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Common Buckeye Butterfly visiting Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba). How to support? Plant nectar flowers for adults. Plant larval host plant, plaintain (Plantago), for caterpillars.
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A common buckeye butterfly feeding off the nectar from a patch of Brown-eyed Susan yellow flowers. The butterfly is brown with orange highlights along its bottom edges. There are 4 ‘eyespots’ on each wing to serve as mimicry to deter predators. butterflies pollinators wildlifegarden invertebrates garden bloomscrolling nativeplants browneyedsusan rudbeckiatriloba
August 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Common buckeye. #CommonBuckeye #JunoniaCoenia #Buckeye #Butterfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin
A common buckeye in the grass. It is facing up with wings spread open. The butterfly is mostly brown. It has two small vertical stripes at the top of its wings. Toward the outer edge on the left and right are tan markings with a small dark brown circle on the outside, a light brown circle next, and a dark brown spot in the middle. Toward the bottom are two large and two small circles--dark brown on the outside, tan on the next ring, and a brown spot in the middle. The two larger ones have a bit of orange at the top of the spots. Below the circles are orange horizontal lines. Under that are brown, tan, and brown lines, with white lining the edge. The antennae are white, dark at the end, with white tips.
June 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Common buckeye. #CommonBuckeye #JunoniaCoenia #Buckeye #Butterfly #Insect #Animal #ButterflyWeed #AsclepiasTuberosa #Wildflower #Nature #Photography #Madison #Wisconsin
Common buckeye on some butterfly weed. It is facing upward. The flowers are yellow on the top and red on the bottom with some red buds mixed in. There are some blurred green leaves in the background. The butterfly's entire body is brown. The forewing is also brown, but with several markings. The tip is brown, but just a little inside is a vertical white dash. Below that are three orange diagonal spots and next to the middle one is a black spot with a light blue spot inside. To the right is a long white stripe stretching from top to bottom. To the right of that, just below the middle, is a large black eyespot, surrounded by tan and brown outlines and with a light blue spot in the middle. Below it is an orange bar and to the right of it is a tan line. To the right of all that is a thick dark brown line that runs along the white stripe at the top and goes all the way down, bending around the eyespot. Finally, at the top, between the brown line and the body are two orange bars between darker brown lines. The hindwing is partially covered. Just under the forewing a partially covered eyespot can be seen, with another visible one just a little to the right. They look the same as the one on the forewing. Below and between them are a thick orange line going across the wing, then a thin brown line, a tan line, another thin brown line, a lighter brown line, another thin brown line, and a thin tan line going across the bottom.
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM