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Summer beauty Butterfly resting in Commanche Trail Park. Big Spring, Tx Danaus gilippus,Queen Click/tap to enlarge

Summer beauty

Butterfly resting in Commanche Trail Park. Big Spring, Tx

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The Queen Butterfly is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae with a wingspan of 70–88 mm. It is orange or brown with black wing borders and small white forewing spots on its dorsal wing surface, and reddish ventral wing surface fairly similar to the dorsal surface.

Similar species: Moths And Butterflies
Species identified by WildFlower
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Uploaded Aug 24, 2016.